BlueOnyx 5212R development: Call for donations

Development of BlueOnyx 5212R has started and we're kindly asking for funding to help us with the development efforts.

BlueOnyx needs your help

We're currently undertaking several large development projects to modernize BlueOnyx and to make your daily server management tasks easier. This is a lot of work and we're short on funding to get it done in a reasonable time frame. If you like BlueOnyx and it provides and added value to your enterprise, then please consider funding the development of our upcoming BlueOnyx 5212R with a donation. We're trying to raise 5.000,- Euros (~5400 USD) in order to fully fund the development in order to be able to do a timely release not long after RHEL10 (and clones such as AlmaLinux 10 and RockyLinux 10) are released. 

Here is what we're working on:

BlueOnyx 5212R for AlmaLinux 10 / RockyLinux 10 / RHEL10

In November 2024 RHEL10 beta was released and shortly thereafter AlmaLinux also release a beta of their upcoming AlmaLinux 10. With that in hand started the preliminary development of BlueOnyx 5212R for EL10. As usual there is a long list of RPM dependencies that needs to be fulfilled in order to get BlueOnyx working on any newly released RHEL clone. And as usual the beta repositories are pretty bare.

We are approaching our goal of getting a working BlueOnyx 5212R out of the door from two ends: We do have a basic AlmaLinux 10 build environment up for this, which we use for RPM building to tackle the long list of dependencies. Likewise some work was done on a separate EL9 build box to bring the core parts of the GUI (base-alpine, CodeIgniter, AdmServ, AdmServ-PHP-FPM) up to to have a working GUI prototype that works with the version of PHP that RHEL10 ships with. 

Naturally: Any major OS update such as this comes with various changes in the OS, newer libraries or things that are simply handled a bit different than before. And these need to be taken into account and need to be addressed.

So far BlueOnyx 5210R/5211R used Postfix as default, but the Postfix configuration was generated from the Sendmail configuration on the fly during Postfix restarts. As RHEL10 (and clones) no longer ship with Sendmail, extensive changes to base-email are required to directly generate the Postfix configuration. Under the hood there are some additional OS related changes that require changes to our BlueOnyx codebase. While these are numerous, they are trivial and just need time and attention to detail.

You can help us with that by making a donation to the BlueOnyx project to fund the development of BlueOnyx 5212R and we would appreciate it a lot. 

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!