On October 19th, 2018, we will once again be hosting a CentOS Dojo at CERN, in Meyrin, Switzerland. This will be a full day of CentOS presentations, drawn both from CERN and from the broader CentOS community. The call for papers is now open. We're looking for talks about anything CentOS related, but we're particularly […]
The CentOS community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 7.5.1804 to a mirror server near you. CentOS 7.5.1804 is a rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 release on April 4th, 2018. For complete release notes, please see https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7.1804 You can also read the announcement on the CentOS-Announce mailing list. To […]
Last week I, and one of my colleagues, had the opportunity to attend SuperComputing Asia in Singapore. The great thing about the various SuperComputing conferences is getting to see what amazing things people are doing with HPC (High Performance Computing) to make the world a better place. This was very much the case last week […]
LinchPin is a simple and flexible hybrid cloud orchestration tool. Its intended purpose is managing cloud resources across multiple infrastructures. These resources can be provisioned, decommissioned, and configured all using declarative data and a simple command-line interface. Linchpin recently release 1.5, and I had an opportunity to talk with Clint Savage earlier this week about […]
For those of you who were unable to attend the CentOS Dojo in Brussels, here are all of the videos from the event. Subscribe to our YouTube at youtube.com/TheCentOSProject KB's "State of CentOS" Bert Van Vreckem - Basic troubleshooting of network services Tomas Oulevey - Anaconda addon development Matthias Runge - Opstools SIG Haikel Guemar - […]
Another FOSDEM is history. I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the people that helped out at the CentOS table at FOSDEM, as well as at the Dojo before FOSDEM. We had about 75 people in attendance at the Dojo on Friday, with 12 presentations from various speakers. Some of these presentations […]
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 […]
SC17, the largest SuperComputing event in the world, was held in Denver, Colorado, November 12 through 17th. I was lucky enough to attend the event as a representative of the CentOS community. While there, I spoke with dozens of organizations that use CentOS as part of their High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. I also got […]
Once again we'll be holding our annual CentOS Dojo in Brussels, the day before FOSDEM. The event will be held at the same venue as last year - at the Marriott Grand Place - and will run from 9am until 5pm. After 5, we'll join the traditional FOSDEM party at Delirium. The CFP for this […]
Yesterday we held our first - hopefully of many - dojo at CERN. We had around 70 people in attendance, representing many organizations and nations. And we had presentations from many different projects within the CentOS ecosystem. If you're not familiar with CentOS Dojos, you can read more about them here: https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/ And if you're not […]