Update : there will be "nightly builds" happening every day, starting from today (the first one being scheduled to start at 8PM UTC). The whole process will be automated and would also start to reflect those new trees. That means that the url to enter for new network install, and yum repositories will need to […]
Following our previous post, we are pleased to announced that the first (pre-release) CentOS 7rc tree is pushed. As a reminder, you can find it at the following location : http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64-20140614 If you want to use it, you need to use the boot.iso media (found under the images directory) , start a netinstall and point […]
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the first CentOS 7 QA Release. !!! This is a QA release only and not the final CentOS 7 release !!! In the past, CentOS QA testing has been performed by a small group of people within the CentOS community. We are happy that we are […]
As part of the preparation for CentOS 7, and with a growing focus around making the source easier to work with for developers and Special Interest Groups, the CentOS Project is publishing the git source tree used for building the distribution. This represents a bit of a change from previous releases and we understand that […]
RHEL 7 is officially out and available for RHEL subscribers. You can get more information about the release from http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/06/10/red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-now-generally-available/ or via the press release at http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-hat-unveils-rhel-7 Congrats to the RH team for all their hard work in making this happen. As for CentOS 7, it's currently working its way through our build process. As we have […]
Hi, We have been sending all build logs via email for people who wanted to keep up with the build history in our CentOS-7 efforts ( ref: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-build-reports ), we have now put the same info online at http://buildlogs.centos.org/ . You can now go there and get info about what mock configs were used, what […]
As we're all busy building/testing/rebuilding/QA'ing/etc ... the el7 rc tree, I thought it would be a good idea to also start looking at building the Live media spins (aka CentOS LiveCD/LiveDVD we had for version 5 and 6). The first thing was to rebuild the needed tools but that was easy to do (you can […]
With the default gnome3 desktop in el7, opening a terminal via the menu sometimes presents the user with a different PATH variable than if they right click the desktop and choose 'Open in Terminal'.For some reason it appears that the user's .bash_profile is not always read, which means ~/bin and ~/.local/bin are sometimes missing from […]
First, the download links : http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/rc/7/ Drill down to the type of build, and ISOS are available as well, and remember to report bugs at http://bugzilla.redhat.com Here at the CentOS Project, we are going to rebase our build plan and build efforts around the sources released along with this rhel7rc, more news on that in […]
A number of people seem to not like the idea of gnome3 on the desktop for EL7, instead looking for the familiar gnome2 feel. I've taken a run at building MATE on the el7 beta and it looks pretty good overall. Over the next few days I'd like to sit down with some of the […]