Following up on our announcement last week of the developer preview of RHEL 10 on RISC-V and the announcement of initial CentOS support for RISC-V, the RHEL downloads are now available at developers.redhat.com/products/rhel-riscv Note that to access the downloads you must be logged in to your Red Hat account. As mentioned previously, the vast majority […]

It's not every day that a new computer Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) begins to attract support in the industry. The last time that Red Hat implemented a new ISA was with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 adding an implementation for the ARM design of CPUs. As of right now, RHEL supports the X86_64 (v3 […]

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: Davide gave an update on GitLab migration work. The board discussed the FRCL efforts, including ideas […]

The quokka is the new CentOS mascot. Red Hat Summit is May 19-22. Join CentOS on Community Day, and come see us in Community Central in the expo hall. More details are on our Summit event page. Flock, the annual Fedora conference, is June 5-8 in Prague. Progress is underway in migrating to GitLab. The […]

Anyone who builds a Linux distribution knows that it’s more than just the ISO you download from the website. When creating Linux distribution artifacts, a set of inputs; processing steps; and outputs need to be defined so that it is understood what comprises the “distribution” itself. Kurchu is one of those tools aimed at doing this with Fedora/CentOS resources.

After years of discussions, CentOS is excited to present our new mascot: the quokka. We've been discussing a mascot in the Board and Promo SIG for a few years. In fact, the quokka had been mentioned as long ago as the September 2022 Board meeting, and probably earlier. We would probably still be idly discussing […]