Downloads

BlueOnyx is available in the following flavours and forms:

BlueOnyx versions:
Model: Base OS: Bit: Status: ISO: OpenVZ: VMDK: VDI:
5211R

AlmaLinux 9,
RockyLinux 9,
RHEL9

64-bit Latest release (IPv4 and IPv6)
Yes No Yes
Yes
5210R

AlmaLinux 8,
RockyLinux 8,
CentOS 8 (*)(*)

64-bit Stable release (IPv4 and IPv6)
Yes Yes Yes
Yes
5209R CentOS 7 64-bit Stable release (IPv4 and IPv6)
Yes Yes Yes Yes
5208R CentOS 6
64-bit EOL, (IPv4 only)
Yes Yes No  No 
5207R CentOS 6 32-bit EOL, (IPv4 only) Yes Yes No  No 
5109R CentOS 7 Armv7hi
32-bit 5209R Raspberry Pi beta release (IPv4 only) No n/a No  No 
5108R CentOS 6 64-bit EOL, mandatory upgrade to 5208R (IPv4 only) Yes Yes No  No 
5107R CentOS 6 32-bit EOL, mandatory upgrade to 5207R (IPv4 only) Yes Yes No  No 
5106R CentOS 5 32-bit End of life (IPv4 only) Yes Yes No  No 

BlueOnyx 5211R:

This is the in latest and most modern 64-bit version of BlueOnyx with an all new "Elmer" (and the older "Adminica")  GUI on RHEL9 clones. Such as AlmaLinux 9 or RockyLinux 9. It also supports IPv4, IPv6 and dual-stack. BlueOnyx 5211R contains continued improvements over its predecessor BlueOnyx 5210R. It supports HTTP/2 and TLSv1.3 out of the box for all relevant services and provides a better FTP integration, true SFTP and Chrooted Jails for siteAdmin's and Users. It now also allows to protect GUI logins (not only SSH logins!) with Two-Factor-Authentication (2FA).

BlueOnyx 5210R:

This is the in latest and most modern 64-bit version of BlueOnyx with the modernized Chorizo GUI ("Elmer" and "Adminica") on RHEL8 clones. Such as AlmaLinux 8, RockyLinux 8 or RHEL 8 clones. It also supports IPv4, IPv6 and dual-stack. BlueOnyx 5210R contains continued improvements over its predecessor BlueOnyx 5209R. It supports TLSv1.3 out of the box for all relevant services and provides a better FTP integration, true SFTP and Chrooted Jails for siteAdmin's and Users.

BlueOnyx 5209R:

This is the 64-bit version of BlueOnyx with the Chorizo GUI on RHEL7 clones, based on CentOS 7. If you are about to install a new server, then please use this instead of any of the older releases. It also supports IPv4, IPv6 and dual-stack.

Special Interest: BlueOnyx for Raspberry Pi

BlueOnyx 5109R:

Oliver Paukstadt is working on a BlueOnyx 5209R fork that can run on the Raspberry Pi. It uses the CentOS arm image as base OS. Which is essentially CentOS 7 x86 rebuilt for the Arm32 architecture. If you have a Raspberry Pi and want to give BlueOnyx on it a try? Then you can find the installation instructions here.

Older and retired releases (listed for historical reasons):

BlueOnyx 5208R:

This is the 64-bit version of BlueOnyx with the Chorizo GUI. It is available on both RHEL6 clones: Scientific Linux 6 and CentOS 6. It went EOL on 30th Nov 2020. 

BlueOnyx 5207R:

This is the 32-bit version of BlueOnyx with the Chorizo GUI. It is available on both RHEL6 clones: Scientific Linux 6 and CentOS 6. It went EOL on 30th Nov 2020. 

 

BlueOnyx 5108R:

This is the 64-bit version of BlueOnyx with the old framed Sausalito GUI. It was available on both RHEL6 clones: Scientific Linux 6 and CentOS 6. On 2019-07-23 we released a mandatory YUM update that will automatically YUM update all BlueOnyx 5108R to BlueOnyx 5208R.

BlueOnyx 5107R:

This is the 32-bit release of BlueOnyx with the old framed Sausalito GUI. It is available on both RHEL6 clones: Scientific Linux 6 and CentOS 6. On 2019-07-23 we released a mandatory YUM update that will automatically YUM update all BlueOnyx 5107R to BlueOnyx 5207R.

BlueOnyx 5106R:

This was the older 32-bit release of BlueOnyx. It was based on the RHEL5 clone CentOS 5 and with the end of life support of CentOS 5 we retired it on March 31, 2017.

Donations:
  BlueOnyx is available free of charge. For all purposes, may they be personal, commercial, educational or whatever else you might want to use it for. However: Keeping BlueOnyx updated, adding new features to it and releasing updated ISO images is a lot of work. If you like BlueOnyx, then please consider donating something to the project. Thank you and enjoy using BlueOnyx!


ISO Images:

ISO images of BlueOnyx are available on our mirror servers - free of charge.

This is the preferred installation method.

Download locations:

Our ISO images are named in a way that shows which version of BlueOnyx and which RHEL clone they are based on. Additionally they have the date and timestamp in the name (YYYY-MM-DD) which shows when the ISO was rolled up.

Please note:

Limited EFI-Support: The ISO images for BlueOnyx 5211R and BlueOnyx 5210R have support for EFI-boot and also works on systems that don't have EFI yet. *ALL* older ISO do *not* have EFI-support. If you want to install BlueOnyx 5209R (or older), then you need disable EFI support in the BIOS prior to installing off the CD.

ISO image sizes: For some of the ISO's (especially the newer ones) you will need to burn them to a DVD as they are too big to fit onto a CD.

Newest 5211R version (EFI and non-EFI support):

  • BlueOnyx-5211R-AlmaLinux-9.3-20240224.iso

Newest 5210R version (EFI and non-EFI support):

  • BlueOnyx-5210R-AlmaLinux-8.9-20240309.iso

Newest 5209R version (non-EFI):

  • BlueOnyx-5209R-CentOS-7.9-20230910.iso

Older versions of the ISO's can be found at the mirrors listed above in the "old-stable" subdirectory.

These ISO images include all the latest BlueOnyx updates as well as the OS related updates at the time indicated by the date in the file file name (Y/M/D). All ISO's (regardless of age) can be full updated to the latest patchlevel via "yum update". 

Virtual Appliance (VMware and VirtualBox Images)

We also offer ready to use BlueOnyx 5211R,  BlueOnyx 5210R and BlueOnyx 5209R VMDKs for VMware Player/Plus/Workstation and VDIs for VirtualBox. You can download and attach the VMDK image to your VMware. Just create a new virtual machine in either VMware or Virtualbox (64-Bit, non-UEFI,  for the OS settings choose RHEL9, RHEL8, RHEL7,  CentOS7 or CentOS8 or something similar) and instead of creating a new empty virtual harddisk attach the VMDK image to your VMware or attach the VDI image to a VM in VirtualBox and use it. 

Image Download locations:

Donations:
  BlueOnyx is available free of charge. For all purposes, may they be personal, commercial, educational or whatever else you might want to use it for. However: Keeping BlueOnyx updated, adding new features to it and releasing updated ISO images is a lot of work. If you like BlueOnyx, then please consider donating something to the project. Thank you and enjoy using BlueOnyx!

Installation instructions:

Just boot your server off the CD. Follow the onscreen instructions. All data on the hard disks of the server in question will be erased and BlueOnyx will be installed and configured.

However: You will need at least 20 Gigs of HD space if you install with the default partitioning scheme. To install BlueOnyx with a partitioning scheme of your own choosing, boot off the CD and instead of pressing "return" at the splash screen, enter "self" (for self partitioning) or "small" for a 10 Gig layout and then press return.

Please note:

The CD cannot be used to upgrade a BlueQuartz server to BlueOnyx! 

Aventurin{e} / OpenVZ / Virtuozzo OS template:

The OS template for BlueOnyx is available free of charge for Aventurin{e} clients. It can be installed with "yum install ostemplate-blueonyx" on the Aventurin{e} master node. Or do a "yum search ostemplate" to see what is available.

The OS templates of BlueOnyx for generic OpenVZ and/or Virtuozzo can be obtained from Solarspeed.net, or can be downloaded here. OpenVZ 7 users please read this text first.

BlueOnyx on ProxMox:

Rickard Osser from BlueApp kindly provided a BlueOnyx 5211R (RockyLinux 9.0) template. You can download it here.

Manual self install:

If you want to manually install BlueOnyx onto an existing RHEL, AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux, then please follow the instructions in the guides provided below:

 

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