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May 2023 Newsletter The next CentOS Connect will be colocated at Flock on August 2. Watch the website or social media for CFP and registration details. The CentOS project has started a podcast called Connections, where we talk to interesting people doing interesting things across the CentOS ecosystem. For our first episode, we talked to […]
The CentOS team is excited to announce that we will be hosting a CentOS Connect event at Flock to Fedora on August 2, 2023. CentOS Connect is a series of mini-conferences that showcase the latest developments across the Enterprise Linux ecosystem. These events are usually colocated with other open source conferences to help reach a […]
As a member of the Hyperscale SIG, Intel maintains a “hyperscale-intel” repository with optimized versions of packages, to help customers maximize their performance on Intel® architectures. As part of this work, we have released an optimized version of the Zlib package for both CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9 yielding significant performance gains. The […]
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: The board discussed work left to be done around the ISA SIG (Issue 115) and the […]
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 the x86 SIG proposal with Florian Weimer. There's a general agreement that we […]
This is a summary of the work done by the CPE Team. Each quarter CPE Team together with CentOS and Fedora community representatives chooses the initiatives that will be worked on, in this quarter. The CPE Team is then split into multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on chosen initiatives + day to day work […]
End dates are coming for CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Linux 7 We’ve got an important message for Developers, Administrators, and Users. Time flies when you’re building RPMs… ...and install images... and containers... and cloud images... and so much more! Time files when planning system migrations too - so start planning now! But, before we […]
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2023Q1 This report covers work that happened between January 9th 2023 and April 3rd 2023. For previous work, see the 2022Q3 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 […]
March 2023 Newsletter Brian Stinson announced that CentOS Stream 8 is transitioning to being ahead of RHEL8. This aligns CentOS Stream 8 with the CentOS Stream 9 workflow. Troy Dawson announced that EPEL 8 Modules are now retired. There was a web+docs meetup in Brussels. Shaun McCance posted a recap to centos-promo. Part of this […]
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: Christian Glombek presented about CentOS Stream CoreOS & OKD Streams. This is a condensed version of […]