It's not a secret that the CentOS project has always been running on sponsored infra since the beginning of the journey. While over the years we sometimes lost some "sponsors", we are always happy to see new ones joigning us . That's especially true for the infra used to "seed" the CentOS distro and SIGs content […]
The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1902), an 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. CentOS Atomic Host includes these core component versions: atomic-1.22.1-26.gitb507039.el7.centos.x86_64 rpm-ostree-client-2018.5-2.atomic.el7.x86_64 ostree-2018.5-1.el7.x86_64 cloud-init-18.2-1.el7.centos.1.x86_64 docker-1.13.1-91.git07f3374.el7.centos.x86_64 kernel-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 […]
A substantial number of released/updates were announced on Tuesday, March 19th, and are listed below. For timely announcements of these updates, subscribe to the centos-announce mailing list, at https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce . Errata and Enhancements Advisories We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories) during March: Tue Mar 19 2019: CEEA-2019:0507 CentOS 7 shadow-utils Enhancement - https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-March/023228.html […]
We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.10 and CentOS Linux 7.6.1810 for x86_64. All included packages have been updated to February 28th, 2019. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled; if you need them for shared folders, please install the vagrant-vbguest plugin and add the following line […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, Another month into 2019, and we have a lot to tell you about. Releases and updates SIG updates Events Contributing to the newsletter CentOS is 15! As you may have seen either at recent events, or on social media, we're getting ready to celebrate our 15th birthday! As part of that, Rich […]
As I’ve mentioned, as we approach our 15th anniversary, I’ve been talking with some of the people who were around in those early days, to get more of the backstory. (See our YouTube channel for the full interview.) Last week, I spoke with Greg Kurtzer, who founded the Caos Linux project, which turned into the […]
CentOS Opstools SIG Quarterly Report Dec 01, 2018 - Feb 28, 2019 Purpose Provide tools and, documentation, recommendations and best practices for operators of large infrastructure. Membership update We need to be honest to see that contributions decreased over the time. Members moved on, and at the same time, we failed to attract new contributors. […]