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Upcoming changes to downloading AltArch .iso images

Monday, 8, October 2018 Anssi Johansson altarch, announcement, mirrors No Comments

Greetings from the mirror-management department! This notice is for those who employ some sort of an automation to download AltArch (ie. aarch64, armhfp, i386, power9, ppc64, ppc64le) CentOS 7 .iso/.raw.xz images from mirror.centos.org. Those using a regular browser to download these images are not particularly affected, and you can continue to the next post on […]

EPEL for armhfp

Saturday, 15, September 2018 pgreco altarch, arm 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, Fabian passed me the torch in our quest for a fully working EPEL rebuild for armhfp, that included access to the builders, the build system manager and a blind, unfunded trust that I wasn't going to break anything. The plan up to that point was, "if it builds, great, if it […]

Improving CentOS package delivery security with signed repository metadata

Monday, 9, July 2018 Neal Gompa altarch, announcement, builds, distro, General No Comments

With the release of CentOS 7.5.1804, the CentOS Project has taken the next big step in improving software delivery security by signing all repository metadata for CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 for all architectures, including the repositories for CentOS Special Interest Groups (SIGs) produced by the CentOS Community Build System (CBS). Wait, what do you […]

Testing armhfp devices

Tuesday, 15, May 2018 pgreco altarch, arm No Comments

7.5.1804 is a big one. For the first time, we have a release for armhfp completely lined up with x86_64, but that also means a lot of changes. To make things a bit more complicated, the arm world is not exactly uniform, there are many vendors, chip manufacturers, chip versions and that makes testing an […]

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 […]

Alternative Architectures Abound in CentOS 7 (1511)

Sunday, 17, January 2016 Johnny Hughes altarch, arm, General, i686, ppc 6 Comments

With the latest release of CentOS-7, we have added several new Alternative Architecture (AltArch) releases in addition to our standard x86_64 (x86 {Intel/AMD} 64-bit) architecture. Architectures (aka arches) in Linux distributions refer to the type of CPU on which the distribution runs.  In the case of our standard release, it runs on x86 64-bit CPUs […]

CentOS Linux 7 32-bit x86 (i386) Architecture Released

Tuesday, 13, October 2015 Johnny Hughes altarch, announcement, distro, i686 29 Comments

The Alternative Architecture Special Interest Group (AltArch SIG) is happy to announce the release the x86 32-bit version of CentOS Linux 7.  This architecture is also known as i386 or i686.  You can get this version of CentOS from the INFO page. This version of CentOS Linux 7 is for PAE capable 32 bit machines, […]

A Flashable CentOS Image for the Intel Edison

Monday, 24, August 2015 bstinson altarch, General, i686 3 Comments

A Flashable Image for the Intel Edison The Intel Edison system-on-a-chip boards are pretty cool, a little compute module can plug into a number of different breakout boards. There's an Arduino-style board, and another form-factor featuring a bunch of stackable modules (GPIO, SD Card, OLED Screen etc.) Since the system is a dual-core Atom, we can […]