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.
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2024Q4 This report covers work that happened in 2024Q3 and 2024Q4 between July 4rd 2024 and January 7th 2025. For previous work, see the 2024Q2 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since […]
The CentOS Docs SIG held a half-day CentOS Doc Day at Flock. Seven of us sat in a room and worked on the documentation, as well as the ongoing work on website refresh. Here are a few highlights of the work. We started the process of merging docs.centos.org and sigs.centos.org, using the mkdocs-based workflow already […]
This report covers work that happened between January 27th 2024 and July 3rd 2024. For previous work, see the 2023Q4 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since the last update, the SIG membership has remained the same. We […]
As you probably know, CentOS Stream development is happening in the open on Gitlab.com. You can see changes happening in real time in the redhat/centos-stream/rpms namespace. You can check open merge request, create yours and provide feedback. Yet, due to the limitations of the Gitlab platform, we have not been able to provide an unauthenticated […]
This report covers work that happened between September 1st 2023 and January 26th 2024. For previous work, see the 2023Q2 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since the last update, the SIG gained one new member (Matteo Croce). […]
This report covers work that happened between April 4th 2023 and August 31st 2023. For previous work, see the 2023Q1 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since the last update, the SIG gained four new members (Raymond Colebaugh, […]
The CentOS ISA SIG was created to have a place to experiment with architecture baselines, compiler optimizations, and other optimization techniques that could potentially benefit users of newer hardware on real-world workloads. We’ve been up and running for a while now, so we thought it would be interesting to describe what we’ve done, how it […]
As a member of the Hyperscale SIG, Intel maintains a “hyperscale-intel” repository with optimized versions of packages, to help customers maximize their performance on Intel® architectures. As part of this work, we have released an optimized version of the Zlib package for both CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9 yielding significant performance gains. The […]
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2023Q1 This report covers work that happened between January 9th 2023 and April 3rd 2023. For previous work, see the 2022Q3 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since the last update, the […]