Sidero Labs introduces Talos Enterprise Linux commercial license for production deployments
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Sidero Labs introduced Talos Enterprise Linux as a commercial license for Talos Linux production deployments. The company said the offering is aimed at organizations that require support and specific security and compliance materials during security reviews.
Sidero Labs linked the license to NIS2 and CRA compliance, describing it as a way to provide enterprise capabilities under a single commercial license and one support relationship. The company also positioned the change as maintaining the underlying open-source basis while adding enterprise build and compliance elements.
In the company’s description, Talos Enterprise Linux uses the same open-source codebase as Talos Linux. It adds features including FIPS 140-3 compliance, security artifacts, schematic-specific SBOMs, curated VEX data, signed build attestations, CVE SLAs, and commercial IP indemnity. Talos Linux itself remains under the MPL-2.0 license.
Steve Francis, president of Sidero Labs, said, “Talos Enterprise Linux smooths enterprise adoption by delivering the supply-chain artifacts security teams demand,” adding that “With always available support, schematic-specific SBOMs, curated VEX data, signed build attestations, FIPS 140-3 compliance, CVE SLAs and commercial IP indemnity, organizations can clear security reviews with confidence, without giving up the freedom of an open-source OS. It’s an ideal foundation for NIS2 and CRA compliance.” The release also described Talos Linux use at organizations including Roche, the Singapore Exchange and DE-CIX, and stated that Nokia’s Enterprise Services Cloud team runs more than 320 clusters on 130,000 cores on Talos Linux. The company said Talos Linux is used for managing Kubernetes fleets, and that it would continue to be based on the same open-source codebase.
Sidero Labs said Talos Enterprise Linux and Talos Linux are built from the same open-source codebase and that Talos Enterprise Linux provides the enterprise build and support described in the release.
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