CIQ Blog: What's New in Enterprise Linux & AI Infrastructure
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Who actually decides what lands on your Linux servers
Frontier Linux moves fast. Legacy Enterprise Linux moves on the vendor's schedule. Enterprise Linux Manager gives the decision back to your team.

Fuzzball v4.3: your GPUs serve a model in one command
One command serves a Hugging Face model from a replica pool on your own GPUs. 11 validated presets, autoscaled endpoints, persistent local volumes.

SingularityCE reaches end of life. Apptainer carries on
Sylabs ends SingularityCE, SingularityPRO, and Singularity Enterprise on October 25, 2026. Apptainer, formerly Singularity, carries on.

Bring your lifecycle workflow to RLC Pro with CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager
Migrating to RLC Pro? CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager mirrors content, curates views, rolls back, and provisions hosts from one control plane.

Entitlement without enforcement: how ELM handles content access
Entitlement resolves once at the mirror. No subscription-enforcement service to stand up, and no host checks in during a rollout.

Sovereign inference in one pull and deploy
Guest post by Zach Deane-Mayer @ AI Insight Solutions The frontier labs sell turnkey AI, priced by the token. The lab sets that price, picks the deprecation schedule, and can revoke your access at…

Making computing serve the science: Wolfgang Resch’s journey to Fuzzball
In 2001, Wolfgang Resch was studying HIV drug resistance when a biological question pulled him toward computation. Researchers could measure a viral isolate’s clinically relevant characteristics…
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The CVE didn't bring the fleet down. The patch meant to fix it did.
How to catch a breaking change before it reaches your fleet, prove it on a few hosts, and back it out in one move.

Your GPUs are throttled by the kernel you inherited
The kernel decides how much GPU capacity reaches your workload. RLC Pro AI ships Linux 6.18 with validated NVIDIA drivers and the CUDA toolkit

Migrate to RLC Pro from any Linux environment
See the direct path to RLC Pro from RHEL, Oracle Linux, SUSE, Amazon Linux 2, or Linux running without a support contract today.

The forgotten layer: How Brian Dawson learned to see the whole stack
Ask Brian Dawson, CIQ's Director of Product Management, to explain what he does, and he reaches for a cake analogy before he reaches for a spec sheet. Organizations have invested heavily in the most…