Supported Linux Distributions with orcharhino

With orcharhino, companies and organizations can provision, manage, and configure systems and provide them with software packages and patches. orcharhino is vendor-independent and supports several Configuration Management Tools as well as a wide range of hypervisors.

It doesn’t matter whether users work with bare-metal systems, virtual machines, cloud systems or a mixture of all three. In addition, orcharhino can deploy and configure hosts with Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, Windows 11, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019.

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orcharhino can be installed on the following systems

AlmaLinux 9
Oracle Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise 9
Rocky Linux 9

There are also orcharhino clients that connect the hosts to orcharhino. orcharhino is one single interface for managing systems with different Linus distributions.

Simplify Your Data Center with orcharhino and Linux

Enterprise Linux operating systems are offered with support options in the form of subscriptions at different severity levels. Subscriptions include support, updates, and patches for the corresponding running time. In addition, the software is certified by numerous hardware and application manufacturers.
The free Linux variants such as CentOS, on the other hand, are not certified or are only certified by a few manufacturers and support is usually only provided by the community, i.e. the development community.

orcharhino clients are available for the following systems

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a well-established Linux distribution for enterprise and server environments. Long support periods and a focus on stability and security make RHEL particularly attractive for the long-term operation of business-critical systems.

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Oracle Linux

Oracle Linux is the best-known Enterprise Support distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The specially developed “Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK)” is based on newer kernel versions and includes Oracle’s own extensions.

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CentOS

CentOS is an open-source Linux operating system that is primarily known for its binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is based on the sources of RHEL and is provided by the community.

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Rocky Linux

Rocky Linux is a community-driven enterprise Linux distribution. It is a derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The first stable release was in June 2021 with Rocky Linux 8.4 "Green Obsidian".

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AlmaLinux

AlmaLinux is a community-driven enterprise Linux distribution. It’s a downstream product of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The distribution was created in the beginning of 2021, after Red Hat announced to focus its efforts on CentOS Stream rather than CentOS 8.

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Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 is a Linux distribution from Amazon Web Services. It focues on stability, performance, and the use of resources.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES for short) is a Linux operating system from SUSE. SLES is based on shared sources of openSUSE Leap, a freely available open source Linux operating system developed and maintained by the openSUSE project.

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Debian

Debian is more than just one of the most common Linux distributions in the world. As with many other Linux distributions, there is no company behind Debian; instead, it is developed as a joint project by users for users.

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Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a distribution based on GNU/Linux Debian. It has garnered a great deal of attention, particularly on the client side, due to its relatively simple installation and ease of use, and is therefore especially popular among Linux beginners. Servers and Ubuntu

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Advantages of Enterprise Linux

Interoperability: Enterprise Linux solutions consistently rely on open standards, so that the interaction between different products causes significantly fewer problems - unlike products with proprietary interfaces.
Quality: Enterprise Linux products have an excellent quality standard that is in no way inferior to proprietary solutions. Developments in the global open source community often surpass proprietary solutions.