News, views, and reports on CentOS
March 2024 News CentOS Linux 7 and CentOS Stream 8 will both go EOL in just a couple months. Fabian Arrotin posted some details on how this will affect CentOS infrastructure. As a reminder, we have a blog post with EOL details and migration options. CentOS will migrate from Mailman 2 to 3 soon. Fabian Arrotin has asked […]
The recording of the March 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: There was some discussion on SIGs, including the SIG Council proposal (Issue 126) and the SIG […]
CentOS Stream 9 for x86_64 is now available in community gallery (feature of Azure Compute Gallery! You have always been able to generate CentOS Stream images and upload them to your tenants in Azure yourself, but getting started is now a little easier by using prebuilt images in the Gallery. As an open-source community, the […]
SCaLE 21x is happening next week in Pasadena, CA. This is one of our favorite events, and we're excited to be taking part again. Join us at the CentOS Classroom on Thursday, March 14, from 2pm to 5pm. This is a new format we're testing to have small colocated CentOS events at larger open source […]
The recording of the February 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: We gave an update on the docs day we held after FOSDEM, including progress on applying […]
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). […]
January 2024 News CentOS Connect will be held February 1-2 in Brussels, right before FOSDEM. Join us for two days of presentations and meetups. The Distributions Devroom will happen again at FOSDEM. CentOS is part of the organizing team. CentOS will have a stand at FOSDEM, in Building AW, shared with our Cloud SIG friends […]
HealthTrio has adopted CentOS Stream 9 for several use cases within our system. We have a few dozen servers supporting operations like sandbox environments, build infrastructure, monitoring, analytics, automation, and mirroring. All of these servers supporting corporate activities necessitate the use of a safe patch management system. Internal mirrors repositories are a traditional solution that […]
This is a summary of the work done by the CentOS Infrastructure team. This team maintains the infrastructure for both CentOS and CentOS Stream. This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.
In two months, the CentOS Project returns to FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium on February 3-4, 2024. We will host CentOS Connect on the two dates before FOSDEM, and we'll once again have a stand at FOSDEM, shared with RDO and OKD. We're also joining with our friends at Fedora, AlmaLinux, Ubuntu, and openSUSE to deliver […]