The CentOS Project is pleased to be hosting a one-day Dojo, in conjunction with the upcoming DevConfUS conference, on August 14, 2019. The one-day event, located on the campus of Boston University in the George Sherman Union Building, will feature talks on: Running CentOS and Terraform on AWS Supercomputing at NC State University An Introduction […]
The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1906), an operating system designed to run Linux containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. CentOS Atomic Host includes these core component versions: atomic-1.22.1-26.gitb507039.el7.centos.x86_64 rpm-ostree-client-2018.5-2.atomic.el7.x86_64 ostree-2018.5-1.el7.x86_64 cloud-init-18.2-1.el7.centos.2.x86_64 docker-1.13.1-96.gitb2f74b2.el7.centos.x86_64 kernel-3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 […]
CentOS community, Today marks a new day in the 26-year history of Red Hat. IBM has finalized its acquisition of Red Hat which will operate as a distinct unit within IBM moving forward. What does this mean for Red Hat’s contributions to the CentOS project? In short, nothing. Red Hat always has and will continue to […]
We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.10 and CentOS Linux 7.6.1810 for x86_64. All included packages have been updated to May 30th, 2019. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled; if you need them for shared folders, please install the vagrant-vbguest plugin and add the following line […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, Yes, I'm running a little behind schedule with this month's newsletter. That's because I just got back from the Open Source Summit in Shanghai, where I met a number of CentOS enthusiasts. More about that a little later. CentOS 8 update Releases and updates SIG updates Events Contributing to the newsletter CentOS […]
Since the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (on 07-May) we've been looking into the tools that we use to build CentOS Linux. We've chosen to use the Koji buildsystem for RPMs, paired with the Module Build Service for modules, delivered through a distribution called Mbox. Mbox allows us to run the Koji Hub […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, As in most years, May was extremely busy. Releases and updates SIG updates Events Contributing to the newsletter The Status of CentOS 8 We'll start with the question that appears to be on everyone's mind. As you may know by this point, on May 7th, at Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced […]
Hi, As everybody is probably aware now, RHEL 8.0 was released earlier this week . Instead of publishing multiple blog posts here and then point to updated content, we decided this time to have a dedicated wiki page that can be used to track our current status : https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 So now you can look at […]
Purpose To make CentOS a suitable platform for many different storage solutions. It should be very simple for users to deploy CentOS with the components of storage projects of their choice. Membership Update Ceph and Gluster are current projects in the CentOS Storage SIG. We have been in touch with other storage projects that have […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, Another month into 2019, and we have a lot to tell you about. Releases and updates SIG updates Events Contributing to the newsletter #CentOS15 Yes, we've mentioned this before, but we're still pretty stoked about it. On the 15th, we celebrated our 15th birthday with a small group of friends in Oak […]