Downloads

BlueOnyx is available in the following flavours and forms:

BlueOnyx versions:
Model:	Base OS:	Bit:	Status:	ISO:	Incus:	OpenVZ:	VMDK:	VDI:
5211R	AlmaLinux 9, RockyLinux 9, RHEL9	64-bit	Latest release (IPv4 and IPv6)	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
5210R	AlmaLinux 8, RockyLinux 8, CentOS 8 ()()	64-bit	Stable release (IPv4 and IPv6)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
5209R	CentOS 7	64-bit	EOL (IPv4 and IPv6)	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
5208R	CentOS 6	64-bit	EOL, (IPv4 only)	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
5207R	CentOS 6	32-bit	EOL, (IPv4 only)	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
5109R	CentOS 7 Armv7hi	32-bit	EOL (IPv4 only)	No	No	n/a	No	No
5108R	CentOS 6	64-bit	EOL, mandatory upgrade to 5208R (IPv4 only)	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
5107R	CentOS 6	32-bit	EOL, mandatory upgrade to 5207R (IPv4 only)	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
5106R	CentOS 5	32-bit	End of life (IPv4 only)	Yes	No	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.

Older and retired releases (listed for historical reasons):

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. This version is EOL as of 30th June 2024.

BlueOnyx 5109R:

Special Interest: BlueOnyx for Raspberry Pi: Oliver Paukstadt was working on a BlueOnyx 5209R fork that can run on the Raspberry Pi. It used the CentOS arm image as base OS. Which was essentially CentOS 7 x86 rebuilt for the Arm32 architecture.

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:

updates.blueonyx.it (USA)
K3 Innovationen GmbH (Düren / Germany)
BB-One.net Ltd (Berlin / Germany)
Solarspeed Mirror (Karlsruhe / Germany)
Precision Web Hosting, Inc (California / USA)
www.blueonyx.nl (Netherlands)
A573.NET (Tokyo / Japan)

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-9.4-20241102.iso

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

BlueOnyx-5210R-AlmaLinux-8.9-20241102.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:

updates.blueonyx.it (USA)
K3 Innovationen GmbH (Düren / Germany)
BB-One.net Ltd (Berlin / Germany)
Solarspeed Mirror (Karlsruhe / Germany)
Precision Web Hosting, Inc (California / USA)
http://www.blueonyx.nl (Netherlands)
A573.NET (Tokyo / Japan)

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 ISO images cannot be used to upgrade a BlueQuartz server to BlueOnyx!

Aventurin{e} 6110R (Incus) Images (cloud and regular)

Incus is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager and the successor of LXD. It provides a user experience similar to that of a public cloud. With it, you can easily mix and match both containers and virtual machines, sharing the same underlying storage and network. Incus images for BlueOnyx 5211R and BlueOnyx 5210R are available and are distributed via our own mirror infrastructure. If you have an Incus server, then here are the instructions on how to use the BlueOnyx images:

Add the BlueOnyx Image Server:

incus remote add blueonyx-images https://incus.aventurin.net:443/ --protocol=simplestreams --public --accept-certificate

List Images from the BlueOnyx Image Server:

incus image list blueonyx-images:

Import an Image from the BlueOnyx Image Server:

incus image copy blueonyx-images:blueonyx/5211R/cloud local: --alias blueonyx-5211R-cloud
incus image copy blueonyx-images:blueonyx/5211R local: --alias blueonyx-5211R
incus image copy blueonyx-images:blueonyx/5210R/cloud local: --alias blueonyx-5210R-cloud
incus image copy blueonyx-images:blueonyx/5210R local: --alias blueonyx-5210R

Use one of the imported Images:

incus init blueonyx-5211R-cloud 5211R --storage default -c limits.memory=4GiB --no-profiles
incus start 5211R

Aventurin{e} 6109R / OpenVZ 7 / 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: