SC17, the largest SuperComputing event in the world, was held in Denver, Colorado, November 12 through 17th. I was lucky enough to attend the event as a representative of the CentOS community. While there, I spoke with dozens of organizations that use CentOS as part of their High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure. I also got […]
There is an upgrade tool that allows for in-place upgrades from CentOS Linux 6 to CentOS Linux 7. This tool is Community Maintained, and information is available on the CentOS Wiki and on the CentOS Mailing List. We currently do not have anyone from the Community maintaining the package, and in its current state it […]
The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1710), 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 includes an updated version of rpm-ostree that allows for more flexibility […]
I am pleased to announce that YUM 4, based on DNF technology, is available for testing on CentOS Linux 7/x86_64. Our limited testing indicates no major problems, but I would love to find out how it fits into your existing YUM 3 workflows. So please consider filling out the short survey - your feedback helps […]
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 28 October 2017 and the centos/7 images no longer include the package documentation installed by default, reducing the image size by around […]
Once again we'll be holding our annual CentOS Dojo in Brussels, the day before FOSDEM. The event will be held at the same venue as last year - at the Marriott Grand Place - and will run from 9am until 5pm. After 5, we'll join the traditional FOSDEM party at Delirium. The CFP for this […]
Yesterday we held our first - hopefully of many - dojo at CERN. We had around 70 people in attendance, representing many organizations and nations. And we had presentations from many different projects within the CentOS ecosystem. If you're not familiar with CentOS Dojos, you can read more about them here: https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/ And if you're not […]
Next week, we're holding a Dojo at CERN, in Meyrin, Switzerland. This will feature content from various of our Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and an overview of how CERN is using CentOS in their work to unravel the secrets of the universe. We still have a little space, if you are interested in coming. You […]
The goal of CentOS Container Pipeline project is to let any open-source project build container images on the CentOS Linux and additionally provide them with: Dockerfile lint report Container scanner reports that: Scan the image for RPM updates Scan the image’s RUN label for capabilities that resulting container might have when started Scan the image […]
The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1708), a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from standard CentOS 7 RPMs, and tracking the component versions included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host. This release, which is based on the RHEL 7.4 source code, includes an […]