Introducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Introducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a new deployment method that takes a container-native approach to deliver the OS as a bootc container image.
The tl;dr is: pretty much Silverblue for RHEL
It’s portable, scalable, and AI-ready Linux at your fingertips, now available as a technology preview.
lmao they managed to put AI in there
56 1 ReplyThey did announce it the same day as their new RHEL AI tools, so they're really just marketing it accordingly ¯_(ツ)_/¯
19 0 ReplyIf you think that's bad, Oracle renamed their LTS DB product from 23c to 23ai the other day.
17 0 Replywtf lol
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Lol AI ready.
The marketing equivalent to "RHCE (in progress)"
12 0 ReplyI wonder if it's like "HD ready".
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It's actually more of a UniversalBlue for RHEL. Silverblue is atomic and rpm-ostree based but doesn't boot directly into container images.
10 0 ReplyCool!
7 0 ReplyThe gong show continues.
1 0 ReplyImage mode builds on the success of open source projects such as bootc
I always think its icky when companies advertise open source projects in their propriety closed source one.
1 6 Replybootc is a RH open source project…
And RHEL is hardly closed source.
5 0 ReplyRedHat source is accessible to registered red hat users. That is NOT open source. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream
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I always think its icky when companies advertise open source projects in their propriety closed source one.
Agreed 100%. So it's good that that's not what they're doing.
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