November 2024 News

• Welcome Jack Aboutboul to the CentOS Board.
• CentOS Connect will happen January 30-31 in Brussels, just before FOSDEM. Join us to collaborate on the future of Enterprise Linux. Registration is free but strongly recommended. The CFP is open until December 16.
• The CentOS Showcase vidoes are available. This was the first time we ran this half-day virtual conference to show off what's happening around the CentOS project. We plan to run three per year going forward.
• Fabian announced that s390x is now available to SIGs in CBS.
• Recordings are available for the October and November board meetings.

Infra SIG

The CentOS Infra SIG deploys/maintains/monitors and also decommission various components needed to support the whole CentOS Project, either helping internally for CentOS Stream distribution itself, or externally for community/SIGs

Things worked on during Q3 (highlights, not BAU tasks) :

• CentOS 7/Stream 8 EOL infra decommission
• https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1359
• contacted sponsors and reinstalled servers
  • https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1471
  • https://blog.centos.org/2024/09/thank-you-all-centos-sponsors/
• enabled Epel/CentOS Stream 10 for SIGs on https://cbs.centos.org
• https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1485
• enabled rpmautospec on CBS for Stream 10
• https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1456
• clarified mirrors situation on https://www.centos.org/download/mirrors/ (previously on wiki, now gone)
• (https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1441)
• helped CentOS Stream team for various tasks wrt Stream build infra (koji, odcs, mbs, storage, network delivery, testing)

Alternative Images SIG

The Alternate Images SIG's goal is to build and provide alternate iso images for CentOS Stream.

Conference Presentations

• At Flock 2024, Troy Dawson presented Alt Images - Lets Talk About it

Quarterly Update

• All Live images were updated.
• https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/altimages/images/live/

WSL Images

• We created Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) images for x86_64 and aarch64
• https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/altimages/images/wsl/

WSL Docs

• https://sigs.centos.org/altimages/wsl-images/
• We documented how to download and run CentOS Stream 9 on WSL.

DIY Local Docs

• https://sigs.centos.org/altimages/diy-local-images/
• We documented how to create your own Alternative Images image locally.

ISA SIG

The ISA SIG meets regularly and discusses low-level architecture-specific issues relevant to CentOS.

In the past quarter, we discussed plans to do a CentOS 10 Stream mass rebuild (to activate POWER10 tuning; binaries will remain compatible with POWER9), and a future experiment with SFrame traceback information built into binaries.