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The recording of the April CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: The board discussed what to do with CentOS 7 AMIs after the CentOS 7 EOL. We […]
The CentOS Project , as long as I can remember, wouldn't have been possible without help of various sponsors over the years. Most sponsors listed on https://www.centos.org/sponsors sponsored one or more machines hosted in various datacenters over the globe, but some had a huge impact over the content delivery. Some years ago, Packet.net (now Equinix.com) […]
CentOS is excited to welcome Troy Dawson to the Board of Directors. The CentOS Board is made up of 10 members, nominated by the community and appointed by a vote of the board. Celeste Lyn Paul decided not to serve another term this year, so the board began the process of selecting a new directory. […]
Due to a needed upgrade , we'll have to move the existing CentOS mailman instance (aka https://lists.centos.org) to a new server/host. Migration is scheduled for """"Monday April 8th, 7:00 am UTC time"""". You can convert to local time with $(date -d '2024-04-08 07:00 UTC') The expected "downtime" is estimated to ~60 minutes , time needed […]
March 2024 News CentOS Linux 7 and CentOS Stream 8 will both go EOL in just a couple months. Fabian Arrotin posted some details on how this will affect CentOS infrastructure. As a reminder, we have a blog post with EOL details and migration options. CentOS will migrate from Mailman 2 to 3 soon. Fabian Arrotin has asked […]
The recording of the March CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: There was some discussion on SIGs, including the SIG Council proposal (Issue 126) and the SIG […]
CentOS Stream 9 for x86_64 is now available in community gallery (feature of Azure Compute Gallery! You have always been able to generate CentOS Stream images and upload them to your tenants in Azure yourself, but getting started is now a little easier by using prebuilt images in the Gallery. As an open-source community, the […]
SCaLE 21x is happening next week in Pasadena, CA. This is one of our favorite events, and we're excited to be taking part again. Join us at the CentOS Classroom on Thursday, March 14, from 2pm to 5pm. This is a new format we're testing to have small colocated CentOS events at larger open source […]
The recording of the February CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: We gave an update on the docs day we held after FOSDEM, including progress on applying […]
This report covers work that happened between September 1st 2023 and January 26th 2024. For previous work, see the 2023Q2 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since the last update, the SIG gained one new member (Matteo Croce). […]