This year, DevConf.us will be held at Boston University, August 17th through 19th. We've secured some space on the day before - Thursday, August 16th - and will be holding a CentOS Dojo. Further details will appear on the event website as they are available. The call for papers is now open, and will close […]
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 […]
On October 19th, 2018, we will once again be hosting a CentOS Dojo at CERN, in Meyrin, Switzerland. This will be a full day of CentOS presentations, drawn both from CERN and from the broader CentOS community. The call for papers is now open. We're looking for talks about anything CentOS related, but we're particularly […]
The CentOS community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 7.5.1804 to a mirror server near you. CentOS 7.5.1804 is a rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 release on April 4th, 2018. For complete release notes, please see https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7.1804 You can also read the announcement on the CentOS-Announce mailing list. To […]
I am pleased to announce some significant updates to our ConfigManagement Special Interest Group for YUM4. This provides YUM4, based on DNF technology, for testing on CentOS Linux 7/x86_64. These updates are based on feedback from our prior test release last October. It includes signed packages, core DNF plugins, and uses a version of RPM […]
We are pleased to announce new official Vagrant images of CentOS Linux 6.9 and CentOS Linux 7.4.1708 for x86_64 (based on the sources of RHEL 7.4). All included packages have been updated to 3rd April 2018. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled; if you need them for shared folders, please install the […]
When we initially launched seven.centos.org, the idea was just to have a single blog instance that CentOS Dev and QA team members could use to give feedback and also report status update about the rebuild and testing of CentOS 7 : that was an easy entry point for people wanting to know how far we […]
The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1803), a lean 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. This release rolls up all package minor updates that shipped through the month […]
Last week I, and one of my colleagues, had the opportunity to attend SuperComputing Asia in Singapore. The great thing about the various SuperComputing conferences is getting to see what amazing things people are doing with HPC (High Performance Computing) to make the world a better place. This was very much the case last week […]
An open letter from the CentOS Board. We didn’t think we would have to say this, but here it is: A rebuild of CentOS Linux is NOT CentOS Linux. We can’t tell you how good a particular rebuild is, but we can definitely tell you one thing: if we didn’t build it, it is not […]