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ClearOS was a small business server operating system with server, networking, and gateway functions. It was designed primarily for homes, small, medium, and distributed environments. It was managed from a web based user interface, but can also be completely managed and tuned from the command line. ClearOS was available in a free Community Edition, which includes available open source updates and patches from its upstream sources. ClearOS was also offered in a Home and Business Edition which receives additional testing of updates and only uses tested code for updates. Professional tech-support was also available. Currently ClearOS offers around 100+ different features which can be installed through the onboard ClearOS Marketplace.
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2024-05-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 8.10 |
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EuroLinux is a distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). This RHEL clone has just received an upgrade to its 8.x branch. The latest release, version 8.10, mostly provides security fixes and minor updates to services and development languages: "The EuroLinux 8.10 release is codenamed 'Bucharest' - the capital of Romania. EuroLinux 8.10 is available for x86_64 and aarch64 (ARM64) architectures. Among the most significant new features are the new modules: MariaDB version 10.11; Nginx version 1.24; PHP version 8.2; PostgreSQL version 16; Python 3.12. Furthermore, the most crucial system components and developer tools have been upgraded to newer versions: GCC toolset version 13; GO language stack version 1.21; Rust language stack version 1.75; LLVM stack version 17." Aditional details can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): EL-8.10-x86_64-20240527-appstream.iso (15,161MB), EL-8.10-x86_64-20240527-minimal.iso (2,021MB), EL-8.10-x86_64-20240527-boot.iso (1,036MB). |
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2024-05-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 9.4 |
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EuroLinux is an enterprise-class Linux distribution made and supported by the EuroLinux company, built mostly from code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The company's latest release is EuroLinux 9.4 which places a focus on security and updating programming languages. "Major changes in EuroLinux 9.4. Security - key security-related highlights: Rsyslog log processing system introduces customizable TLS/SSL encryption settings and additional capability dropping options. The OpenSSL TLS toolkit adds a provider-specific configuration directory. The Linux kernel cryptographic API (libkcapi) 1.4.0 introduces new tools and options. You can now specify target file names for hash calculations using the -T option. The stunnel TLS/SSL tunneling service 5.71 provides many new features such as support for modern PostgreSQL clients. Programming languages, web and database servers - later versions of the following application are now available: MariaDB 10.11; nginx 1.24; PHP 8.2; PostgreSQL 16; Python 3.12." Additional details and download links can be found in the EuroLinux release notes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): EL-9.4-x86_64-20240509-appstream.iso (10,057MB), EL-9.4-x86_64-20240509-minimal.iso (1,902MB). |
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2023-11-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 9.3 |
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The EuroLinux project publishes and supports an enterprise-focused distribution based on source code from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The EuroLinux team have published version 9.3 of their distribution which introduces a number of updates to server software as well as new utilities. "Major changes in EuroLinux 9.3. Security - key security-related highlights: Keylime was rebased to version 7.3.0. OpenSSH was further migrated from the less secure SHA-1 message digest. The pcsc-lite-ccid USB Chip/Smart Card Interface Device(CCID)) and Integrated Circuit Card Device (ICCD) driver was rebased to version 1.5.2. SEtools, the collection of graphical tools, command-line tools, and libraries for SELinux policy analysis, was rebased to version 4.4.3. OpenSCAP was rebased to version 1.3.8. Programming languages, web and database servers - later versions of the following application are now available: Redis 7; Node.js 20. Furthermore, the Apache HTTP Server has been updated to version 2.4.57." The project's relesae announcement and release notes offer additional information. Download (SHA256, pkglist): EL-9.3-x86_64-20231113-appstream.iso (9,728MB), EL-9.3-x86_64-20231113-minimal.iso (1,727MB). |
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2023-10-12 |
NEW • Development Release: EuroLinux 8.9 Beta |
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EuroLinux is an enterprise-focused distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest development snapshot is EuroLinux 8.9 Beta which includes upgrades to several key packages. "On October 10, we released version 8.9 beta of the EuroLinux operating system, which lets you test technical innovations and compatibility with the upcoming EuroLinux 8.9. The new version of the system includes updated developer software (LLVM 16, Rust 1.71, Go 1.20), kernel version 4.18.0-513 and Java version 21. The list of new features is more extensive. SCAP Security Guide has been updated, and now includes improved rules to provide more consistent configuration, while stream 20 has been added to the Node.js module." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): EL-8.9-beta-x86_64-20231010-appstream.iso (14,601MB), EL-8.9-beta-x86_64-20231010-minimal.iso (1,859MB). |
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2023-05-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 9.2 |
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The EuroLinux team have announced the availability of EuroLinux 9.2, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2, which includes a number of key package updates. "On May 11, 2023, we released version 9.2 of the EuroLinux operating system. It maintains compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. EuroLinux 9.2 repositories have been expanded to include Python 3.11, Nginx 1.22, PostgreSQL 15, new versions of Performance Co-Pilot, updated toolsets - Rust 1.66, Go 1.19 and LLVM 15. The new version of the system also introduces a variety of improvements to the web console (cockpit). The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.14. Key security-related highlights: the OpenSSL secure communications library was rebased to version 3.0.7; SELinux user-space packages were updated to version 3.5; Keylime was rebased to version 6.5.2; OpenSCAP was rebased to version 1.3.7; SCAP Security Guide was rebased to version 0.1.66." Additional details can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): EL-9.2-x86_64-20230510-appstream.iso (8,512MB), EL-9.2-x86_64-20230510-minimal.iso (1,654MB), EL-9.2-x86_64-20230510-boot.iso (864MB). |
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2023-04-13 |
NEW • Development Release: EuroLinux 8.8 Beta |
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EuroLinux is an enterprise-class Linux distribution made and supported by the EuroLinux company, built mostly from code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project has published a new development snapshot, EuroLinux 8.8 Beta. "On April 13, we released EuroLinux version 8.8 beta. It is compatible with the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 beta. It allows you to test technical innovations and compatibility with the upcoming EuroLinux 8.8. Version 8.8 beta includes new versions of developer software (LLVM 15, Rust 1.66, Go 1.19), SELinux policies update, Linux kernel version 4.18, updates to containerization and virtualization tools. New versions of the following components are now available: Python 3.11 - available as regular RPM packages; Nginx 1.22 - available as a module; PostgreSQL 15 - available as a module; Swig 4.1 - available as a module; jaxb 4 - available as a module. The following components have been upgraded: Git 2.39.1; Git LFS 3.2.0. The following performance monitoring tools have been updated in EuroLinux 8.8: PCP 5.3.7; Grafana 7.5.15." The release announcement and the release notes have additional details. Download (SHA1, pkglist): EL-8.8-x86_64-20230413-minimal.iso (1,789MB), (916MB), EL-8.8-x86_64-20230413-appstream.iso (13,285MB). |
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2022-11-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 9.1 |
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EuroLinux is an enterprise-class Linux distribution made and supported by the EuroLinux company, built mostly from code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest release is EuroLinux 9.1. The company's release announcement highlights new features: "On November 30, 2022, we released version 9.1 of the EuroLinux operating system. It is compatible with the latest upstream version. This release focuses on updating containerization and cloud tools. EuroLinux 9.1 introduces Keylime, a tool for remote machine authentication that uses Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology. The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.14.0-162. In EuroLinux 9.1, the SELinux package has been upgraded to version 3.4. Among the most noticeable changes are: improved relabeling performance with parallel relabeling; new policy tools in the libsepol-utils package; SHA-256 support in the semodule tool." Additional details can be found in the distribution's release notes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): EL-9.1-x86_64-20221129-appstream.iso (8,175MB), EL-9.1-x86_64-20221129-minimal.iso (1,544MB). |
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2022-10-13 |
NEW • Development Release: EuroLinux 8.7 Beta |
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EuroLinux is an enterprise-class Linux distribution made and supported by the EuroLinux company, built mostly from code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest development release is EuroLinux 8.7 Beta which is being provided for both the x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. "Among the others, the following packages were updated and enhanced: Qt5 toolchain and utilities were updated from 5.15.2 to 5.15.3. Opencryptoki was updated to version 3.18.0 from 3.17.0. Libva was updated to version 2.13.0 from 2.5.0. Chrony was updated to version 4.2 from 4.1. Unbound was updated to version 1.16.2 from 1.7.3. Fapolicyd rebased to 1.1.3 from 1.1. Mariadb-java-client rebased to version 2.7.1 from 2.2.5. open-vm-tools rebased to 12.0.5 from 11.3.5" Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download (SHA1, pkglist): EL-8.7-x86_64-20221012-appstream.iso (12,708MB), EL-8.7-x86_64-20221012-minimal.iso (1,693MB). |
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2022-06-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 9.0 |
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EuroLinux is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest release is EuroLinux 9.0 which will be supported through to June 2032. "We released version 9.0 of the EuroLinux operating system. It is compatible with the latest upstream release. This release focuses on providing improved default cryptographic policies, a 5.14 kernel, a graphical management interface via a web panel, and improvements related to cloud, virtualization and containerization. "Nine" also introduces a major update in the form of the GNOME 40 desktop environment (with modern GTK 4). An important change for those who want to use EuroLinux on x86_64 architecture, is the need to have a processor supporting x86_64-v2 microarchitecture (also on virtual machines). Since version 8.3, the EuroLinux operating system is offered in an Open Core model - both as a paid subscription and free of charge. Customers and the community get access to the software at the same time, in the same version and in the same repositories. The paid subscription additionally provides: manufacturer's technical support, access to errata files, access to additional intermediate packages, the possibility to influence product development." Further information is provided in the distribution's release announcement and release notes. Download: (SHA1, pkglist): EL-9.0-x86_64-20220613-appstream.iso (6,591MB), EL-9.0-x86_64-20220613-minimal.iso (1,454MB). |
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2022-05-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 8.6 |
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Following close on the heels of their upstream source, the EuroLinux team have published EuroLinux 8.6 which is based on the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The organization's release announcement begins: "On May 11, 2022, we released version 8.6 of the EuroLinux operating system. It is compatible with the latest upstream release. With this release we focused on the support for modern software security technologies such as OpenSSL 3.0, verification of the versions of installed SELinux policies and updated hashing algorithms. New PHP and Perl versions have been added. The system was also enhanced by a secure version of log4j. Popular C/C++, Go and Rust compiler collections have been updated. The real-time Linux kernel test suite - rteval - has received the ability to specify a threshold value in microseconds. Options' names in Samba binaries have been standardized to provide a more consistent user interface. The changes will also satisfy the people who work with deep learning and deep neural networks - the OpenCV package in EuroLinux 8.6 now ships the dnn and text modules." The release notes offer additional details. Download (SHA1, pkglist): EL-8.6-x86_64-20220511-appstream.iso (11,760MB), EL-8.6-x86_64-20220511-minimal.iso (1,628MB). |
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2022-03-01 |
NEW • Development Release: EuroLinux 9.0 Beta |
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EuroLinux is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The distribution has a new development snapshot, EuroLinux 9.0 Beta, which introduces a number of new features: "In EuroLinux 9.0 you can now use a standalone smart card to both authenticate yourself and gain additional privileges via sudo. For the typical cases of installing EuroLinux with a medium such as a disk interactively a Quality of Life tweak has been implemented: the Anaconda installer will now automatically activate a network connection if applicable (will try to obtain an address via DHCP). You can now optionally permit a password-based root login via SSH or completely lock the root account in any case. (While the former is not recommended due to security and disabled in EuroLinux 9 by default, there are valid use cases which we support with this single easy switch)." Additional information is available in the release announcement and release notes. Download (SHA1, pkglist): EL-9.0-x86_64-20220301-appstream.iso (8,024MB), EL-9.0-x86_64-20220301-minimal.iso (1,410MB). |
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2021-11-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 8.5 |
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EuroLinux is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest release is EuroLinux 8.5. The distribution's release announcement offers highlights on the latest version: "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. (New) HA and RS Repositories: EuroLinux 8.5 is the first release that includes 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 release notes for EuroLinux 8.5 offer additional details. Download (SHA1, pkglist): EL-8.5-x86_64-20211126-appstream.iso (10,757MB), EL-8.5-x86_64-20211126-minimal.iso (1,518MB). |
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2021-07-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 8.3 |
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EuroLinux is a commercial clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest release, EuroLinux 8.3, introduces no-cost download options and more open access to information with regards to updates. "EuroLinux 8.3 introduces a number of significant improvements over version 7. We have added new, key functionalities (such as the module streams) and distinguishing features in the form of the possibility of rebuilding the system from sources, or 1 to 1 compatibility with the RPM packages of the RHEL system. EuroLinux technological advantages and distinguishing features. We have modernized our software sharing model. From version 8.3, EuroLinux is available both as a paid subscription and for free in the Open Core model. The advantage of such a solution is to deliver as much value as possible to users and communities. It is a modern, transparent and responsible business model. From version 8.3, every user of EuroLinux and EuroLinux containers receives full system with updates released at the same time for both, paid and free users. The paid version of the system additionally provides: direct manufacturer support, access to errata files, access to additional intermediate packages (if the support service so requires) impact on product development." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download (pkglist): EL-8.3-x86_64-20210624-appstream.iso (9,197MB, SHA1), EL-8.3-x86_64-20210624-minimal.iso (1,319MB, SHA1). |
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2020-11-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 7.9 |
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EuroLinux is an enterprise-class Linux distribution made and supported by the EuroLinux company, built mostly from code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest release is EuroLinux 7.9 which enters a new phase of support. "Because EuroLinux 7 is in the second phase of support, there are no revolutionary changes. It is the same stable, mission-critical, proved operating system in which many packages were updated and upgraded to a higher version. It should be anticipated since Enterprise Linux 7 during its life was repeatedly subjected to a reasonably common, aggressive rebase, that is, upgrading packages to recent, nevertheless proven and reliable, versions. Among the most significant changes are: sssd upgraded to version 1.165; pacemaker and stack responsible for clustering updated to version - 1.1.23; MariaDB database updated to this year's version - 5.5.68." The release announcement goes on to mention that EuroLinux 6 raches the end of its normal life cycle on November 30, 2020. However, customes can purchase extended support after this date. EuroLinux can be purchased through the distribution's contact page. |
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