Vyatta Community and Vyatta Subscription Editions

There are two editions of Vyatta. One edition is for the Vyatta Community. The second is the Subscription Edition, often simply referred to as Vyatta. The differences between the two editions are as follows:

Vyatta Community Edition

• Available from Vyatta.com, Vyatta.org, SourceForge and others
• Access to bleeding edge development and stable community releases
• Support is best effort and community driven
• Use any hardware, including Vyatta Certified Hardware, but no hardware or performance guarantees

Vyatta Subscription Edition

• Available through Vyatta subscription packages
• Available preintegrated on Vyatta appliances
• Stable, tested, enterprise quality code
• Access to Vyatta knowledge-base
• Access to Vyatta University Training
• Backed by our professional support organization
• Vyatta Certified Hardware is tested and supported

Release Cycles

Most of the time, Vyatta operates on a two month rapid development cycle. This usually consists of a month of development and a month of QA. The end of code development is referred to as the Code Complete milestone. The end of the QA cycle marks the QA complete milestone. Typically, each milestone in the development cycle results in new packages being posted to the Vyatta repositories where users can update. New community ISO images are built at roughly six month intervals.

Vyatta License

Vyatta is an integration of a number of components from a variety of different sources, much the same way as a standard Linux distribution. Many of the components are licensed under the GNU GPL. Others carry a BSD license. All components carry licenses defined as open source.

License files are included with every package installed in the system and can be viewed in the /usr/share/doc/package/copyright file.