Rolling ISO Media release 1505 for CentOS 7 (x86_64) Now Available
The rolling ISO media releases for CentOS 7 for May 2015 (1505) are now available. These rolling ISO media releases are basically just respins of the install media at release time with all bugfix,...
View ArticleCentOS-7 (1503) armv7hl Proof of Concept (pre-alpha) Image available for the...
As Jim Perrin pointed out in an earlier post here on seven.centos.org, we have commenced an armv7 (actually, armv7hl) open build to try and produce CentOS-7 for arm32 boards like the Cubietruck,...
View ArticleAnother Proof of Concept armv7hl Release, this one for the Raspberry Pi2
Ten days ago I wrote an article here about an armv7hl test image for the Cubietruck 32-bit ARM board. I have just uploaded a similar armv7hl image for the Raspberry Pi2. Both of these images are...
View ArticleIntroducing Flamingo: A Lightweight Cloud Instance Contextualization Tool for...
When using on-demand instantiation of virtual machines in cloud computing, users pass configuration data to the cloud and that data is used for configuring the instances. This process is called...
View ArticleCentOS Linux 7 32-bit x86 (i386) Architecture Released
The Alternative Architecture Special Interest Group (AltArch SIG) is happy to announce the release the x86 32-bit version of CentOS Linux 7. This architecture is also known as i386 or i686. You can...
View ArticleCentOS Linux can only come from the CentOS Project
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...
View ArticleImproving CentOS package delivery security with signed repository metadata
With the release of CentOS 7.5.1804, the CentOS Project has taken the next big step in improving software delivery security by signing all repository metadata for CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 for all...
View ArticleWelcoming Packet as new sponsor for CentOS.org infra
It's not a secret that the CentOS project has always been running on sponsored infra since the beginning of the journey. While over the years we sometimes lost some "sponsors", we are always happy to...
View ArticleCentOS 8.0.1905 build status
Hi, As everybody is probably aware now, RHEL 8.0 was released earlier this week . Instead of publishing multiple blog posts here and then point to updated content, we decided this time to have a...
View ArticleCentOS 8 Status 17-June-2019
Since the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (on 07-May) we've been looking into the tools that we use to build CentOS Linux. We've chosen to use the Koji buildsystem for RPMs, paired with the...
View ArticleSpeeding-up Yum for CentOS EC2 instances
Tomorrow, I intend to push a change to mirrorlist.centos.org nodes that will have a (good) impact to CentOS EC2 instances running from AWS network. Thanks to AWS, sponsoring the required backend infra...
View ArticleHow RHEL is Made
This week Red Hat announced its plan to put all its energy into CentOS Stream 8, resulting in the discontinuation of CentOS Linux 8 in one year’s time. CentOS Stream, originally announced in September...
View ArticleBalancing the needs around the CentOS platform
These past few weeks I’ve read through and listened to a lot people’s reactions and responses to our news about the future of the CentOS Project. I see a lot of surprise and disappointment, and I also...
View ArticleHow updates work in CentOS
This document is an attempt to explain the relationship between Fedora Linux, CentOS Stream and RHEL, with a specific focus around how package updates flow between them. From Fedora to CentOS Stream...
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