eLxr Server 26.04 - Bianca - Free

eLxr™ 26.04 (Bianca) is an open-source community maintained Enterprise Linux distribution for organizations running mission-critical and high-performance workloads across distributed environments in the industrial, retail, telecommunications, medical, and financial services sectors.

Built on Debian 13 and Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, eLxr™ extends the Debian ecosystem with open-source community lifecycle management, curated package maintenance, vulnerability remediation, certified ecosystem integrations, and operational tooling for production deployment.

Learn more about eLxr on our community web page: eLxr.org 

eLxr is for deployment on modern AWS EC2 instance families and enterprise cloud environments.

Performance and Infrastructure Features

• AWS EC2 deployment enablement
• Linux Real-Time Kernel (PREEMPT_RT)
• SR-IOV networking
• PCI passthrough capabilities
• DPDK userspace networking
• NUMA-aware workload deployment
• Huge Pages
• CPU isolation capabilities
• IRQ affinity and workload tuning
• Throughput and packet-processing optimization
• Software RAID
• Hardware-assisted virtualization
• Open vSwitch, Linux Bridge, NAT, and VETH networking
• Enterprise performance tuning guidance
• Signed and authenticated package repositories

Lifecycle Services

• Open-source upstream community package maintenance
• eLxr community repositories
• Regular security updates
• Authenticated and GPG-signed repositories
• Enterprise package lifecycle management
• Secure software delivery practices

Security Tooling

• Trivy package inclusion and maintenance for SBOM generation
• AppArmor framework and security profiles

Identity integration software packages included for:

• Active Directory integration
• OpenLDAP integration
• Kerberos authentication
• SAML federation
• OAuth
• OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• Open-source cryptographic libraries

Cloud-Native and Modern Workload & Platform Enablement

• Kubernetes ecosystem and aligned upstream maintenance lifecycle
• Container platform and aligned upstream maintenance lifecycle
• Virtualization platform enablement and aligned upstream maintenance lifecycle
• Infrastructure automation tooling
• Performance-focused Linux kernel foundation

Virtualization and MicroVM Technologies

Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:

• KVM
• QEMU
• Libvirt
• KubeVirt
• Xen
• Incus (LXC)

Kubernetes and Container Platforms

Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:

• Kubernetes
• K3s
• Containerd
• Docker
• Podman
• CRI-O
• Runc

Developer Platforms

Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:

• OpenJDK
• Python
• Node.js
• Go
• Rust
• Ruby
• GCC
• G++

Observability Platforms

Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Nagios
• Zabbix

Storage Platforms

Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:

• OpenZFS
• Ceph
• GlusterFS
• NFS
• ext4

Databases

Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• MariaDB

Web Platforms

Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:

• NGINX
• HAProxy
• Apache HTTP Server
• Lighttpd

Certified Ecosystem

The following solutions are validated and certified for deployment on eLxr.

Security and Operations

• CrowdStrike
• Tenable
• Tanium
• Rapid7
• BeyondTrust
• Trivy

Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform
• Ansible

Data Protection

• Veeam

AI and Machine Learning

Validated deployment of:

• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• ONNX
• Intel OpenVINO

Certification indicates validation and interoperability testing by the eLxr community. Certification does not imply the vendor reviewed or that vendor IP is distributed, maintained, or supported.

For more insights into our eLxr features and packages, please navigate to eLxr community webpage or subscribe to our community forums .