The latest version of this server can be downloaded from Softpedia

Jul 27, 2014 16:06 GMT  ·  By

CoreOS 367.1.0, a Linux-based server OS built from scratch for the modern datacenter, has been released and is packed with numerous changes and improvements.

The CoreOS developers have been working very hard to launch a stable version of this new distribution and they managed to do it after a few development versions.

“CoreOS delivers supported enterprise Linux OS in a completely new way. It is the world's first OS as a Service — patches are delivered as a continuous stream of updates. This means you are always running the latest in terms of stability and security, without the need for major migrations every few years.”

“Applications on CoreOS run in Linux containers, powered by Docker, giving you maximum flexibility in packaging and deployment. Every feature of CoreOS is designed to keep your operation and development teams happily focused on their goals instead of manually applying OS patches, debugging dependency conflicts and other issues that shouldn't be relevant in a modern OS,” reads the official announcement.

The first development version of CoreOS arrived back in August 2013, and since then, the devs have had 191 smaller releases and it has been tested on thousands of servers. As it stands right now, more than 10 platforms are supported, and they can be used on Rackspace and Google.

The developers eventually settled on Linux kernel 3.15.2, which is one of the latest kernels available and they have implemented Docker 1.0.1. All the major cloud providers, including Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2 (including HVM), and Google Compute Engine are supported by the distribution.

CoreOS 367.1.0 is made by a very dedicated and powerful team, and if we take the development cycle as an example, this Linux distribution will be receiving numerous patches and improvements at a constant pace.

The devs also proud themselves with a small memory footprint for this operating system and they say that it will actually use 40% less than your average Linux server. The fact that it comes with Docker, a superb solution to run distributed applications, makes it all the more attractive.

To make things even more interesting, CoreOS can boot via PXE on real or virtual hardware and the developers have a very comprehensive tutorial in place that explains in great details all you have to do.

Check the official announcement for more details about the first stable release of CoreOS. You can download CoreOS 367.1.0 right now from Softpedia.

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