Congratulations to Red Hat for RHEL7
RHEL 7 is officially out and available for RHEL subscribers. You can get more information about the release from http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/06/10/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-now-generally-available/ or via the press release at http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-hat-unveils-rhel-7 Congrats to the RH team for all their hard work in making this happen.
As for CentOS 7, it's currently working its way through our build process. As we have updates you'll be able to follow them here at seven.centos.org. We'll post updates as regularly as we can to help keep everyone current on the progress.
Hi Jim - Are you guys planning on releasing a CentOS-7 Beta/RC or are you just building and testing continually until you've got a final release ready based on the final RHEL 7 bits?
Initially we thought we'd have a bit more time to do an RC following the branding hunt. Now we're just building for production.
Is Red Hat not helping alievate the issue of hunting down branding to remove now that they employ some of the CentOS guys to work on CentOS?
Well, they (Red Hat) hired 4 of us to work on CentOS full time .. which we are. So, yes Red Hat is helping the process in that way. However, the guys they hired were already working in the CentOS Project. So, now we have more time to spend on CentOS than we did before ... BUT ... they did not add an extra 24 hours into the day, so we are still limited to the original 24 hours with our 4 full time people 🙂
Are we getting an RC or release directly?
According to Jim Perrin above, they are building directly for release.
I can not WAIT to use CentOS 7! 😀
Any idea how often this site will be updated?
As often as we have updates to share.
Out of curiosity, how long does it take to build the entire tree?
We'll let you know when we get the entire tree built 🙂
The RC1 x86_64 tree (including the mutlilib i686 part) takes 2 days to build .. but there are issues (like the pacemaker fails and has to be built with an older version of publican, etc.)
We are obviously working on the 7 GA tree now, when we have something we'll post it here and on the mailing lists.
Thanks, I was really just curious about the build duration.
Take all the time you need to get everything ironed out. 🙂
can you estimate how long the tests will continue until the final release?
Our "Goal" is 2-4 weeks.
One would think now that you're getting paid we could get a straight answer on releases.
When you're given a free Ferrari, you don't complain about a week's shipment delay. Tsk tsk.
Hear, hear! If it comes to spending more time calculating and planning the project timeline to accurately predict the release date, or just getting down to removing code and releasing, I'm all for the latter.
Of course, if you don't like it I'm sure you are welcome to a full refund for your purchase...
No need to be cross.
I, too, am so excited I am hyperventilating hourly.
But estimates to completion are always going to be "best guess" estimations. The devil is always in the details.
I don't LIKE waiting, but it's not like it's anybody's fault that I have to.
Do you publish in this version, hardware compability with supermicro
AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 card (chipset Marvell 88SE9485 HVBA SAS) ?
That's indeed quite a short schedule. Even if sources are given by RH, such a build process is a real nightmare some people seems to really underestimate.
And during that time, EPEL should also be out of beta and for RH-Like distros (official package set is better tested but offer much less choice when you come from Debian world, especially, not having all dpkg stuff when you build Debians for embedded is really missing) this is not an option!
I'll know what to do if I have a few days with bad weather in july... Upgrade a few machines (those 64 bits arch) of mines and relatives!
Nice, I see pre-moderation is in effect here - Open, community - more like censored and corporate. Sad.
Or it could just be a spam mitigation measure, or something else completely reasonable.
Relax.
I welcome some level of moderation. Comment sections have too great a tendency to go downhill. It's hard to pick a good comment/response out of 10s of comments before I just give up.
Excited for centos 7 and counting the days/hours :). Thanks for all the hard work.
How much of backward compatibility will be maintained in centos 7 when it comes to graphic cards, sound cards. Will Nouveau support old cards like 6000/7000 series as Nvidia's proprietary drivers dropped support for these cards.
The C7 supports x86_32 ?
I'm planning to transition a bunch of servers to Centos 7 over the summer. Is it reasonable to get my services working in Fedora 19/20 now, then copy all those configs over to C7 when I can install it in a few weeks?
Alternatively I could just stick with 6.5, but I'd really like to build on Systemd, Samba 4, etc.
Excited for centos 7 and counting the days/hours :). Thanks for all the hard work.