CentOS Hyperscale is CentOS targetted towards enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. It is being built by a group of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and other hyperscalers, by making optional changes to CentOS Stream to better suit the Linux distribution to their internal needs. CentOS Hyperscale packages…
CentOS 7 Extended Lifecycle Support
You can now confidently continue to use CentOS 7 till June 2028! CentOS 7 security updates end in June 2024. TuxCare, an innovator in enterprise-grade cybersecurity for Linux, has announced that they’ll be offering an Extended Lifecycle Support for CentOS 7 until June 2028. TuxCare said, “An Unsupported Operating System is a Ticking Time Bomb….
How to setup KDE on CentOS Stream
CentOS Stream is as popular a laptop/desktop Operating System as much as it is a Server based one. And when it comes to working on your personal machine, you’d always love to work on a GUI instead of on terminal. CentOS Stream itself comes with multiple GUIs including KDE & GNOME. In this article, lets…
OKD Streams on CentOS Stream CoreOS
OKD Streams, the Community Distribution of Kubernetes that powersRed Hat OpenShift, has launched a fully open source release pipeline that the community can participate in, to help support and manage the release cycle ourselves. The OKD Community is now able to build and release stable builds of OKD 4.12 on CentOS Stream CoreOS which hereon…
CentOS 9 Stream Appliances
CentOS has announced that CentOS 9 Stream Appliances will soon be available via KIWI on the CentOS-Infra repository. What is KIWI? KIWI is one of the most popular command line utility to build Linux system appliances. KIWI had recently phased out its legacy code and has now come up with KIWI NG (Next Generation) with…
EPEL 8 Modules – Now a history
Way back in 2018, Fedora 28 had introduced EPEL 8 modules, which allowed one to install multiple versions of the same software and switch between them, making them modular. For example, one might need to keep switching between a nodejs 8.x, 10.x and 12.x based on the software requirement, or even switching between a Python…
New CentOS logo
CentOS has released its new visual brand identity with the launch of its brand new logo. After the formation of CentOS Stream, multiple Special Interest Groups (SIGs) were formed, with each group taking on a particular responsibility. One such group is the CentOS Artwork SIG. The CentOS Artwork SIG uses the CentOS Brand to connect…
What is Amazon Linux 3 and how does it compare to CentOS 9 Stream?
AWS has recently announced the public preview of its next version of Amazon Linux. Amazon linux 3, codenamed AL2022, brings in improvements in design, security, stability and performance over its predecessor Amazon Linux 2. Starting with AL2022, Amazon will launch a major version of its Amazon Linux every two years and each version will be…
Fedora vs CentOS Stream vs Redhat Linux
To start with RedHat is most known for its association with RedHat Enterprise Linux and is the primary sponsor of Fedora Project and CentOS Stream along with many other open source projects. Redhat Inc. was acquired by IBM in 2019 and is now operated as an independent subsidiary of IBM. Why would the same company…
CentOS Stream vs Rocky Linux vs AlmaLinux
Back in 2019, Redhat had announced that they will be changing their sponsorship for CentOS Linux distribution from December 2021. CentOS Stream would be an upstream development platform designed for CentOS community members. Rocky Linux Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project after RedHat decided…