AWS delivers delayed major release of its homebrew Linux

AWS delivers a – rather late – major release of its homebrew Linux distribution

AWS promises the quarterly updates will offer"new features and packages."

"These releases might include the latest language runtimes such as Python or Java. They might also include other popular software packages such as Ansible and Docker," wrote principal developer advocate Sébastien Stormacq. Biennial major releases will offer"new features and improvements in security and performance across the stack. The improvements might include major changes to the kernel, toolchain, GLib C, OpenSSL, and any other system libraries and utilities."

Amazon Linux 2023"isn't directly comparable to any specific Fedora release," Stormacq wrote, adding that it"includes components from Fedora 34, 35, and 36." "Some of the components are the same as the components in Fedora, and some are modified. Other components more closely resemble the components in CentOS Stream 9 or were developed independently," he added.Stormacq asserts Amazon Linux 2023 improves on its predecessor by offering deterministic updates through versioned repositories – a change made possible by using Fedora's.

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