The first prototype of Adaptable Linux Platform is Live! (UPDATED)
The first prototype of The Adaptable Linux Platform, the next generation of Linux, is already live!, the introduction of the Adaptable Linux Platform to the SUSE communities started an endeavour to build and design a new application-centric, secure and flexible platform. You can read more about this here.
The idea behind ALP is to allow users to focus on their workloads while abstracting from the hardware and the application layer. With the usage of virtual machines and container technologies, the Adaptable Linux Platform allows workloads to be independent of the code stream.
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SUSE wheels out first public prototype of its server Linux distro, asks for feedback
As we reported back in July, the future direction of SUSE Linux Enterprise is starting to take shape, and it's containers all the way down.
The Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) prototype's internal version number is 0.01, so it has a long way to go yet, but it's ready for you to start experimenting. SUSE has already published some background information, and there's a 50-page manual too.
After community feedback, the new OS will require only x86-64 version 2 support, not the version 3 support that was bruited earlier in the year.
The first demonstration version, code named "Les Droites" after the first peak to surpass 4,000 meters in the Alps, is available for download.
At this stage, two QCOW2 disk images for x86-64 machines are available: one unencrypted, and one with full disk encryption enabled. The plan is that this will support either conventional passphrase entry to unlock the image when the server or VM boots, or work with a hardware TPM chip, as SUSE Distinguished Engineer Olaf Kirch explains, with some demo code to match.