Month: January 2018

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Updated CentOS Vagrant Images Available (v1801.01)

Saturday, 20, January 2018 Laurențiu Păncescu announcement 1 Comment

We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.4.1708 for x86_64 (based on the sources of RHEL 7.4). All included packages have been updated to 9 January 2017 and include important fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities affecting modern processors. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions […]

Meltdown and Spectre: The response from CentOS

Thursday, 18, January 2018 Rich Bowen kernel, security, upgrades No Comments

As you are no doubt well aware, the Meltdown and Spectre bugs are hardware flaws in Intel and AMD chips, and have been all over the tech news for the last few weeks. If you need to get up to speed on what they’re all about, we recommend this great blog post. CentOS, meanwhile, has […]

PHP 7.2 for CentOS 7 armhfp

Monday, 15, January 2018 pgreco altarch, arm 5 Comments

What happens when you need something that is not readily available, but you can help get it done? In my case, start harrassing people until you get all the info you need. Enter @arrfab and @remicollet. Fabian got the builder ready, and contacted Remi who got me to use his SRPMS, all I had to […]

CentOS Atomic Host 7.1712 Available for Download

Tuesday, 9, January 2018 Jason Brooks announcement No Comments

The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1712), a lean operating system designed to run Linux containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. This release includes updated kernel, linux-firmware and microcode_ctl packages to address recent security advisories, alongside […]