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Sidero Labs keeps Talos Linux free after Yardi acquisition

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Sidero Labs, a Yardi company, used its TalosCon 2026 event in Amsterdam to respond to community questions about the company's pricing and open-source status following Yardi's acquisition. The company said Talos Linux remains free and open-source software and that its commercial prices have not changed.

A keynote on Oct. 15 presented by Sidero Labs president Steve Francis and Yardi chairman Anant Yardi addressed those questions directly. Talos Linux, including Talos Hypervisor, Kubernetes and container functionality, is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Omni, Talos Director and Talos Cupar remain commercial products, and the Omni Hobby tier, which covers up to 10 nodes and two users, is now free.

A single system extension converts a Talos Linux machine into a hypervisor that runs Talos and Windows virtual machines, defined through the Talos API and applied without a reboot. Omni then built Kubernetes clusters from virtual machines spread across several hypervisors. Talos Director operates Yardi's production cloud, where thousands of virtual machines and hundreds of Kubernetes clusters have moved from VMware.

Justin Garrison, field CTO at Sidero Labs, ran Talos Hypervisor on stage, and Neil Levien, director of cloud services at Yardi, showed the live Talos Director console. Talos Cupar, the commercial platform for running AI on private infrastructure, lets teams select and fine-tune models, allocate GPUs and connect them to enterprise applications from one interface.

“When Yardi acquired Sidero Labs, the community asked two fair questions: would prices go up, and would Talos Linux stay open source? We wanted to answer them on stage, in front of the people who build on Talos every day,” said Steve Francis, president of Sidero Labs. “Free stays free, and making Omni Hobby free is one way of showing we mean it.”

“Like many companies running virtual machines, we keep a close eye on new developments in virtualization. The Talos Director demo was a welcome surprise, and we were impressed by how polished it already looks,” said Dominic Flock, DevOps engineer at Ratiodata SE. Planned general availability dates are December 2026 for Talos Hypervisor, January 2027 for Talos Director, and March 2027 for Talos Linux for AI and Talos Cupar.

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