<s>
XCP-ng	B-Application
is	O
a	O
Linux	B-Application
distribution	O
of	O
the	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
Project	I-Operating_System
,	O
with	O
pre-configured	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
Hypervisor	I-Operating_System
and	O
the	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
API	B-General_Concept
project	O
(	O
XAPI	B-Operating_System
)	O
working	O
out-of-the-box	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
was	O
born	O
in	O
2018	O
,	O
following	O
the	O
fork	B-Application
of	O
Citrix	B-Application
XenServer	B-Operating_System
(	O
now	O
Citrix	B-Application
Hypervisor	B-Operating_System
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
January	O
2020	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
also	O
part	O
of	O
the	B-Operating_System
Linux	I-Operating_System
Foundation	I-Operating_System
,	O
via	O
the	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
Project	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
XCP-ng	B-Application
stands	O
for	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
Cloud	I-Operating_System
Platform	I-Operating_System
-	O
next	O
generation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
the	O
successor	O
to	O
XCP	O
,	O
initially	O
created	O
as	O
an	O
Open	B-Application
Source	I-Application
version	O
of	O
Citrix	B-Application
XenServer	B-Operating_System
in	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
that	O
time	O
XenServer	B-Operating_System
was	O
closed	O
source	O
,	O
with	O
XCP	O
being	O
the	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
version	O
containing	O
a	O
subset	O
of	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
XenServer	B-Operating_System
was	O
open	O
sourced	O
in	O
2013	O
,	O
the	O
XCP	O
project	O
was	O
halted	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
years	O
later	O
when	O
Citrix	B-Application
stopped	O
delivering	O
XenServer	B-Operating_System
for	O
free	O
and	O
via	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
,	O
the	O
project	O
was	O
revived	O
as	O
XCP-ng	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
December	O
2017	O
,	O
Citrix	B-Application
announced	O
that	O
they	O
would	O
remove	O
important	O
features	O
of	O
XenServer	B-Operating_System
Free	O
edition	O
and	O
make	O
them	O
only	O
available	O
on	O
paid	O
tiers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Also	O
,	O
XenServer	B-Operating_System
was	O
n't	O
focused	O
toward	O
community	O
since	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
response	O
,	O
the	O
original	O
founder	O
of	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
Orchestra	O
(	O
an	O
Open	B-Application
Source	I-Application
web	O
management	O
platform	O
for	O
XenServer	B-Operating_System
)	O
,	O
Olivier	O
Lambert	O
,	O
announced	O
that	O
he	O
would	O
revive	O
the	O
XCP	O
project	O
,	O
with	O
its	O
original	O
goals	O
:	O
providing	O
a	O
Free/libre	O
and	O
100%	O
community	O
backed	O
version	O
of	O
XenServer	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
March	O
31	O
,	O
2017	O
,	O
XCP-ng	B-Application
was	O
announced	O
as	O
the	O
first	O
official	O
release	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
XCP-ng	B-Application
can	O
be	O
compared	O
to	O
a	O
Linux	B-Application
distribution	O
,	O
but	O
meant	O
to	O
run	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
out-of-the-box	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
a	O
collection	O
of	O
components	O
creating	O
a	O
coherent	O
system	O
that	O
you	O
can	O
install	O
on	O
any	O
x86	O
bare-metal	O
server	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
multiple	O
projects	O
,	O
like	O
CentOS	O
for	O
user	B-Operating_System
space	I-Operating_System
packages	O
,	O
XAPI	B-Operating_System
project	O
for	O
the	O
API	B-General_Concept
,	O
Xen	B-Operating_System
project	I-Operating_System
for	O
the	O
hypervisor	B-Operating_System
,	O
Open	B-Language
vSwitch	I-Language
for	O
the	O
networking	O
and	O
so	O
on	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
XCP-ng	B-Application
provides	O
also	O
extra	O
packages	O
that	O
are	O
n't	O
available	O
elsewhere	O
,	O
because	O
non-existent	O
or	O
closed-sources	O
in	O
Citrix	B-Application
Hypervisor	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
fork	B-Application
of	O
XenServer	B-Operating_System
with	O
an	O
"	O
upstream	O
first	O
"	O
philosophy	O
,	O
XCP-ng	B-Application
stays	O
pretty	O
close	O
to	O
the	O
original	O
Citrix	B-Application
project	O
,	O
and	O
can	O
be	O
considered	O
as	O
a	O
"	O
friendly	O
fork	B-Application
"	O
.	O
</s>
