appeared Additional details about the project SUSE LIBERTY LINUX that morning was Announced SUSE without technical details. It turned out that in the framework of the project, a new edition of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution was prepared, collected using the Open Build Service and suitable for use instead of classic CentOS 8 Supported which was discontinued at the end of 2021. It is assumed that CENTOS 8 and RHEL 8 users will be able to translate their systems to the SUSE LIBERTY Linux distribution, which provides full binary compatibility with RHEL and packages from the EPEL repository.
The new distribution is interesting because the contents of the user’s space in SuSe Liberty Linux are formed by rebeling The source SRPM packets from Rhel 8.5, but the package with the kernel is replaced with its own option based on the Linux nucleus branch 5.3 and created by rebeling the package with the kernel from the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 distribution. The distribution is formed only for the X86-64 architecture. Ready builds SUSE LIBERTY LINUX are not available for testing.
Summing up, the SUSE Liberty Linux product is a new distribution based on Rhel packets and SUSE Linux Enterprise kernels, which extends SUSE technical support and which can be centrally managed using the SUSE Manager platform. Updates for SUSE Liberty Linux will be released following Rhel updates.