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CentOS Connect at Flock 2023

Thursday, 25, May 2023 shaunm Uncategorized 2 Comments

The CentOS team is excited to announce that we will be hosting a CentOS Connect event at Flock to Fedora on August 2, 2023. CentOS Connect is a series of mini-conferences that showcase the latest developments across the Enterprise Linux ecosystem. These events are usually colocated with other open source conferences to help reach a […]

High Performance Zlib Compression

Monday, 22, May 2023 Ali Erdinc Koroglu SIG No Comments

As a member of the Hyperscale SIG, Intel maintains a “hyperscale-intel” repository with optimized versions of packages, to help customers maximize their performance on Intel® architectures. As part of this work, we have released an optimized version of the Zlib package for both CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Stream 9 yielding significant performance gains. The […]

CentOS Board Meeting Recap, May 2023

Monday, 15, May 2023 shaunm Board minutes 1 Comment

The recording of the May 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: The board discussed work left to be done around the ISA SIG (Issue 115) and the […]

CentOS Board Meeting Recap, April 2023

Monday, 17, April 2023 shaunm Board minutes No Comments

The recording of the April 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: The Board discussed the x86 SIG proposal with Florian Weimer. There's a general agreement that we […]

CPE Quarterly Update Q1 2023

Thursday, 13, April 2023 zlopez Infra No Comments

This is a summary of the work done by the CPE Team. Each quarter CPE Team together with CentOS and Fedora community representatives chooses the initiatives that will be worked on, in this quarter. The CPE Team is then split into multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on chosen initiatives + day to day work […]

End dates are coming for CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Linux 7

Tuesday, 11, April 2023 jcpunk General, Installation, upgrades 6 Comments

End dates are coming for CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Linux 7 We’ve got an important message for Developers, Administrators, and Users. Time flies when you’re building RPMs… ...and install images... and containers... and cloud images... and so much more! Time files when planning system migrations too - so start planning now! But, before we […]

CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2023Q1

Tuesday, 4, April 2023 Davide Cavalca SIG No Comments

CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2023Q1 This report covers work that happened between January 9th 2023 and April 3rd 2023. For previous work, see the 2022Q3 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 […]

CentOS Newsletter, March 2023

Wednesday, 15, March 2023 shaunm Newsletter No Comments

March 2023 Newsletter Brian Stinson announced that CentOS Stream 8 is transitioning to being ahead of RHEL8. This aligns CentOS Stream 8 with the CentOS Stream 9 workflow. Troy Dawson announced that EPEL 8 Modules are now retired. There was a web+docs meetup in Brussels. Shaun McCance posted a recap to centos-promo. Part of this […]

CentOS Board Meeting Recap, March 2023

Thursday, 9, March 2023 shaunm Board minutes No Comments

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: Christian Glombek presented about CentOS Stream CoreOS & OKD Streams. This is a condensed version of […]

Quarterly Report 2023Q1 – CentOS Alternative Images SIG

Friday, 3, March 2023 tdawson SIG 3 Comments

Quarterly Report 2023Q1 - CentOS Alternative Images SIG This report covers what happened in our SIG between December 1, 2022 and February 28, 2023. Purpose The purpose of the Alternative Images SIG is to build and provide alternate iso images for CentOS Stream. Membership No new members have been added this quarter.  Membership can be […]