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Finnix 251 Linux Distro for Sysadmins Introduces Official OCI Container Images (9to5linux.com)
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Ryan Finnie announced today the release and general availability of Finnix 251 as the latest stable version of this Debian-based live GNU/Linux distribution for sysadmins.

Coming almost eight months after Finnix 250, the Finnix 251 release bumps the kernel from the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS to Linux 6.16 to provide users with better hardware support on newer systems when running Finnix from a USB flash drive.

Finnix 251 is the first release to distribute official OCI container images, which incorporate the same packages as the ISO image. The official Finnix container image can be launched from Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, and similar container management tools. Here’s an example:

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