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 […]
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 28th February 2018. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions are not preinstalled; if you need them for shared folders, please install the […]
The CentOS Atomic SIG has released an updated version of CentOS Atomic Host (7.1802), 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 […]
LinchPin is a simple and flexible hybrid cloud orchestration tool. Its intended purpose is managing cloud resources across multiple infrastructures. These resources can be provisioned, decommissioned, and configured all using declarative data and a simple command-line interface. Linchpin recently release 1.5, and I had an opportunity to talk with Clint Savage earlier this week about […]
For those of you who were unable to attend the CentOS Dojo in Brussels, here are all of the videos from the event. Subscribe to our YouTube at youtube.com/TheCentOSProject KB's "State of CentOS" Bert Van Vreckem - Basic troubleshooting of network services Tomas Oulevey - Anaconda addon development Matthias Runge - Opstools SIG Haikel Guemar - […]
Another FOSDEM is history. I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the people that helped out at the CentOS table at FOSDEM, as well as at the Dojo before FOSDEM. We had about 75 people in attendance at the Dojo on Friday, with 12 presentations from various speakers. Some of these presentations […]
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 9 January 2017 and include important fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities affecting modern processors. Known Issues The VirtualBox Guest Additions […]
As you are no doubt well aware, the Meltdown and Spectre bugs are hardware flaws in Intel and AMD chips, and have been all over the tech news for the last few weeks. If you need to get up to speed on what they’re all about, we recommend this great blog post. CentOS, meanwhile, has […]
What happens when you need something that is not readily available, but you can help get it done? In my case, start harrassing people until you get all the info you need. Enter @arrfab and @remicollet. Fabian got the builder ready, and contacted Remi who got me to use his SRPMS, all I had to […]