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The tl;dr is: pretty much Silverblue for RHEL

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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 55 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They did announce it the same day as their new RHEL AI tools, so they're really just marketing it accordingly ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you think that's bad, Oracle renamed their LTS DB product from 23c to 23ai the other day.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago
[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol AI ready.

The marketing equivalent to "RHCE (in progress)"

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if it's like "HD ready".

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

at least you know your tv is 720p in that case it don't change anything

[–] JebanuusPisusII@szmer.info 10 points 6 months ago

It's actually more of a UniversalBlue for RHEL. Silverblue is atomic and rpm-ostree based but doesn't boot directly into container images.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

The gong show continues.

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Image 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.

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

bootc is a RH open source project…

And RHEL is hardly closed source.

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

RedHat source is accessible to registered red hat users. That is NOT open source. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I don’t like the way they handle access to it, but yes it is largely made up of GPL code, is regularly redestributed and modified, see Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

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.