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SingularityCE Container Technology is Now Available in the EPEL Repository

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

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RENO, Nev., Jan.11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sylabs, the global leader in providing container technology and services for performance-intensive workloads, today announced that SingularityCE is now available in the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository, a repository of additional packages for Enterprise Linux distribution (such as Alma Linux, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Scientific Linux and Rocky Linux). With its inclusion in the EPEL repository, SingularityCE is now easily accessible to users of Enterprise Linux distributions, giving developers access to the most advanced and widely used container runtime technology for performance-intensive applications and environments.

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RENO, Nev., Jan.11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sylabs, the global leader in providing container technology and services for performance-intensive workloads, today announced that SingularityCE is now available in the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository, a repository of additional packages for Enterprise Linux distribution (such as Alma Linux, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Scientific Linux and Rocky Linux).
With its inclusion in the EPEL repository, SingularityCE is now easily accessible to users of Enterprise Linux distributions, giving developers access to the most advanced and widely used container runtime technology for performance-intensive applications and environments.
These users need the flexibility to package complex applications and libraries into one scalable container that can be moved to different systems/hardware environments without breaking - and while maintaining security protocols.
"Sylabs is excited to bring the SingularityCE to the EPEL repository.

Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) Approves New Bylaws and Charter Designed to Ensure Open Community Control of Rocky Linux and Future RESF Projects

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

RENO, Nev., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today published its charter and bylaws, documenting the organization's governing structure and rules for hosting open source projects, including its namesake project, Rocky Linux. The charter and bylaws also describe the RESF vision to create and nurture a community of individuals and organizations that are committed to ensuring the longevity, stewardship and innovation of enterprise-grade open source software that is always freely available.

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RENO, Nev., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today published its charter and bylaws, documenting the organization's governing structure and rules for hosting open source projects, including its namesake project, Rocky Linux .
Adopted on November 9, the new RESF charter and bylaws were voted on by the initial charter member group of 30 RESF and Rocky Linux contributors.
Kurtzer co-founded and once led the former open-source project CentOS Linux, a popular bug-for-bug-compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
The RESF charter and bylaws reflect our intent that neither Rocky Linux nor any RESF project will ever be controlled, purchased or otherwise influenced by a single entity or individual."

Apptainer 1.1.0, a Linux Foundation project (formerly Singularity), Arrives With Added Security Features and Build Improvements

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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*Container Build Improvement* Apptainer 1.1.0 is further enhanced by allowing users greater flexibility to set up containers without using root. The new version extends the --fakeroot option to make it useful when /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid mappings have not been configured on the host. When this is the case, a root-mapped unprivileged user namespace (the equivalent of unshare -r) and/or the fakeroot command from the host will be tried. Together, these emulate the same mappings and are simpler to administer. This feature is especially useful with the --overlay and --writable-tmpfs options and for building containers unprivileged, because they allow installing packages that assume they're running as root.

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Improvements in the new version provide a smaller attack surface for production deployments while offering features that improve and simplify the user experience.
Apptainer continues the legacy of Singularity with backwards compatibility, stability, added security, performance and reproducibility.
Improvements shipping as part of this new feature include:
A squashfuse image driver that enables mounting SIF files without using setuid-root.
Complete release notes can be found at the Apptainer GitHub repository:
Apptainer is the Linux Foundation successor to the popular Singularity container runtime.

AlmaLinux Foundation Builds AlmaLinux OS 8 for s390x

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation , the nonprofit that stewards the community-owned and governed open source CentOS successor AlmaLinux, is announcing that AlmaLinux 8 now supports s390x.

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The AlmaLinux OS Foundation , the nonprofit that stewards the community-owned and governed open source CentOS successor AlmaLinux, is announcing that AlmaLinux 8 now supports s390x.
The efforts undertaken by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation were made possible when Sine Nomine Associates (SNA) joined as a foundation member.
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation members supporting the rapid development of AlmaLinux include AMD, Arm, CloudLinux, and Codenotary.
The AlmaLinux OS falls under the purview of The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, which is a 501(c)(6) non-profit created for the benefit of the AlmaLinux OS community.

CIQ & Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation: Rocky Linux 9 Released, Including All Tools, Infrastructure Needed for Anyone to Replicate, Extend the Project, Independently

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Thursday, July 14, 2022

RENO, Nev., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Rocky Linux 9 arrives today, delivering a host of new security, application and networking features. But the capability in version 9 taking center stage is the availability of all the build chain infrastructure tools that developers would need to pick up Rocky Linux to extend or reproduce the operating system, should they desire to do something independently of the community or any upstream supporting organization. As a result, Rocky Linux v9 delivers a supported enterprise Linux platform for the next decade.

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As a result, Rocky Linux v9 delivers a supported enterprise Linux platform for the next decade.
"When we release any version of Rocky Linux, it is more than just a bunch of binaries, package repositories, and installers," said Gregory Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ and founder of the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF), the entity behind Rocky Linux.
Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and drives software infrastructure optimizations for enterprise, cloud, hyperscale and HPC.