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Wednesday, 21, May 2025 shaunm announcement, risc-v No Comments

It's not every day that a new computer Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) begins to attract support in the industry. The last time that Red Hat implemented a new ISA was with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 adding an implementation for the ARM design of CPUs. As of right now, RHEL supports the X86_64 (v3 […]

Friday, 16, May 2025 shaunm Board minutes No Comments

The recording of the May 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: Davide gave an update on GitLab migration work. The board discussed the FRCL efforts, including ideas […]

Thursday, 15, May 2025 shaunm Uncategorized No Comments

The quokka is the new CentOS mascot. Red Hat Summit is May 19-22. Join CentOS on Community Day, and come see us in Community Central in the expo hall. More details are on our Summit event page. Flock, the annual Fedora conference, is June 5-8 in Prague. Progress is underway in migrating to GitLab. The […]

Tuesday, 6, May 2025 Neal Gompa announcement, Community, distro, SIG No Comments

Anyone who builds a Linux distribution knows that it’s more than just the ISO you download from the website. When creating Linux distribution artifacts, a set of inputs; processing steps; and outputs need to be defined so that it is understood what comprises the “distribution” itself. Kurchu is one of those tools aimed at doing this with Fedora/CentOS resources.

Friday, 2, May 2025 shaunm Community, Uncategorized 1 Comment

After years of discussions, CentOS is excited to present our new mascot: the quokka. We've been discussing a mascot in the Board and Promo SIG for a few years. In fact, the quokka had been mentioned as long ago as the September 2022 Board meeting, and probably earlier. We would probably still be idly discussing […]

Friday, 11, April 2025 shaunm Board minutes No Comments

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 ongoing efforst to move content to GitLab. The new Proposed Updates SIG gave […]

Tuesday, 18, March 2025 shaunm Board minutes No Comments

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: The board talked about some details of migrating more SIG activity to GitLab. There was a […]

Friday, 28, February 2025 shaunm Newsletter No Comments

Jonathan Wright and Michel Lind have proposed a Fast Track SIG to incorporate that follow the Application Compatibility Guidelines and which are proposed for CentOS Stream. Jeffrey Osier-Mixon proposed a RISC-V Datacenter SIG. This is under active discussion. One alternative is to do the RISC-V work in the existing ISA SIG. The videos for CentOS […]

Friday, 14, February 2025 shaunm Uncategorized No Comments

The recording of the January 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 discussed the points raised at the FRCL meeting at CentOS Connect. Davide presented the progress […]

Wednesday, 29, January 2025 shaunm Newsletter No Comments

CentOS Connect is January 30-31 in Brussels, just before FOSDEM. Register to join us at this free event. You can join remotely as well. Live stream information is on the website. Troy Dawson will be presenting CentOS Stream and the Power of SIGs: KDE, Hyperscale, and Beyond in the Distributions Devroom at FOSDEM. We'll be […]

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