Dear CentOS enthusiast, Can you believe it's December already? Here's what's been happening in the past month at CentOS. Releases and updates The following releases and updates happened in November. For each update, the given URL provides the upstream notes about the change. Errata and Enhancements Advisories There were no CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements […]
When thinking about the CentOS Project, it’s natural to think of the Linux distro and how it makes operations and administration easy through sane package integration and management. If you are an open source software project, though, how is the CentOS Linux platform useful to you beyond the operating system? This is where SIGs come […]
I'm at SC18 - the premiere international supercomputing event - in Dallas, Texas. Every year at this event, hundreds of companies and universities gather to show what they've been doing in the past year in supercomputing and HPC. As usual, the highlight of this event for me is the student cluster competition. Teams from around […]
We would like to announce that OKD v3.11 rpms been officially released and are available at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/paas/x86_64/openshift-origin311/. [1] OKD is the Origin community distribution of Kubernetes. In order to use the released repo [1] we have created and published the rpm (contains the yum configuration file) [2] which is in the main CentOS extra repository. […]
We are pleased to announce the (tentative) schedule of talks for the upcoming CentOS Dojo in Brussels, which will be held on the day before FOSDEM - February 1, 2019 - at the Grand Place Marriott. Details, and the schedule, are now available at https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Brussels2019 (Schedule subject to change). Registration is free, but we need […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, Here's what's been happening in the past month at CentOS. Releases and updates The following releases and updates happened in October. For each update, the given URL provides the upstream notes about the change. Errata and Enhancements Advisories We issued the following CEEA (CentOS Errata and Enhancements Advisories) during October: CEEA-2018:2903 CentOS […]
The videos from the recent #CentOSDojo at #CERN are now available on the CentOS YouTube channel. If you have time for only one, be sure to watch the first video, which talks about the challenges that CERN has with the enormous amount of data they produce every day in the LHC. Also recommended, Fabian's discussion […]
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 […]
It's been over a year since we published anything about the CentOS Community Container Pipeline. Many interesting things have happened during the past year, many things have changed and there's a complete shift in the architecture of the service that's was rolled out over the last weekend. Wait, I've never heard of this project If […]
We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.5.1804 for x86_64 (based on the sources of RHEL 7.5). All included packages have been updated to September 30th, 2018. Notable Changes The images now use the ext4 filesystem, instead of XFS. We have been getting unbootable images due […]