Introducing Amazon Linux 2
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Introducing Amazon Linux 2
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#2Is this going to trickle down to Lambda? If so what's the implication there, anything interesting?
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#3systemd support is a quite big news, I guess they're now based on Centos 7.
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#4Q. How is Amazon Linux 2 different from its predecessors?
There are four major differences Amazon Linux 2 has from its predecessors:
Amazon Linux 2 will offer long-term support.
It is available as a VM image for on-premises development and testing.
It includes systemd service and systems manager as opposed to System V init system and also includes new version of compiler and build tools.
It provides the ability to install additional software packages through Extras mechanism without impacting the underlying LTS stability of the operating system.
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#5systemd support is a quite big news, I guess they're now based on Centos 7.
Someone already pointed out the differences? What kind of optimisations are done to qualify a new spinoff?
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#6What about the licensing terms of this OS, and the eventual blobs that can possibly come with it?
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#7systemd support is a quite big news, I guess they're now based on Centos 7.
> I guess they're now based on Centos 7
If the quoted package versions are anything to go by, that is not the case.
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#8as an AWS noob, why would anyone use this over Centos or Ubuntu?
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#9We are using Amazon Linux in my company, because it is part of the RPM based distributions that are "security approved" (we needed a recent officially built kernel). I always felt it was a weird monster, that works really well for containers, or applications that don't rely on lots of system libraries. You could quickly end up pulling some packages from both EPEL 6 and 7 (if you want clang for example)
I hope we can use the entire EPEL7 with this new version.
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#10as an AWS noob, why would anyone use this over Centos or Ubuntu?
In theory, since the kernel is specifically tuned towards running on EC2 virtual machines (by the people who know EC2 virtual machines better than anyone) as opposed to 'generic' hardware, performance might be slightly better.
Also, and for many more importantly, it's probably easier to get support from Amazon if you're using their official Linux as opposed to a third party distribution.