A beta version of EuroLinux 9.0 is now available for testing.

EuroLinux 9.0 beta released

On March 1, 2022, we released version 9.0 Beta of the EuroLinux operating system. It is compatible with the latest upstream release. With this release we focused on delivering the most developer-friendly platform across the entire family of systems built upon the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A lot of heart and passion has been put into building this version to be released as soon as upstream does.

At the beginning we will describe the technical advantages and new capabilities of the EuroLinux ecosystem. Then we will present links to the release notes documents along with the jumpstart documentation. For the purpose of this article, we will be referring to the aforementioned family of systems built upon the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the Enterprise Linux family.

Advantages and technological differentiators of EuroLinux

The fastest release of RHEL clone

EuroLinux is the first freely distributed and publicly available clone or RHEL 9 beta. It will allow us to create and maintain the EuroLinux 9.0 general availability version faster with extended QA processes and mature rebuild processes.

Universal Migration Scripts

We have released universal migration scripts. They are available at https://github.com/EuroLinux/eurolinux-migration-scripts. What’s important is that these scripts update all packages of the distribution you are migrating from. No packages from the previous vendor remain after migration. This is the implementation of one of the popular requests made by our customers. In addition, the scripts have options that allow you to customize their operation to individual requirements. The migration process is described here.

Since both EuroLinux 9.0 and Upstream’s release are Beta versions as of today, a lot may change in the meantime before a final release sees the daylight. Because of that, the script does not cover migrating from these Beta versions. Though when implementing additional logic, there may be some conditionals that check for version 9. This is due to the fact that the differences between EuroLinux 9 and 8 will not be as enormous as with 8 and 7.

HA and RS Repositories

EuroLinux 9 beta included High Availability and Resilient Storage repositories from the beginning. They significantly increase the system’s capabilities and allow for easier migration, especially from very expensive cluster solutions from other vendors. The same is applicable to EuroLinux 9.0.

Open x86_64 buildroot

In line with our developer-first idea and community-oriented approach, with EuroLinux 9 an open buildroot is published. Thus, EuroLinux will once again be the only Enterprise OS vendor to make full build trees available to the community. These contain all produced packages for the packages contained in the various repositories. In particular, the -devel packages, containing among other things the headers necessary to build your own software for Enterprise Linux platforms.

EuroLinux 9.0 beta released