Episode 3:16: The Cent of a Distro

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Coming up in this episode

1. CentOS
2. ...
3. ...
4. Just CentOS

316 Audio Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:48 With a Little Help From Our Friends
9:42 CentOS History, 90's - 1996
11:46 96 - 2000
14:01 2000 - 2003
20:29 The Clone Wars
24:47 2004 - 2014
30:25 2014 - 2022
36:41 Our CentOS Experience
1:11:00 Next Time: Topics!
1:14:31 Stinger

Watch this episode on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52MnZVvVumc

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Banter

• Leo's font issue
• The bug
• HUGE Thanks to Carl George for technical help with this episode.

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CentOS Linux the History

• July 1994 The "preview" release for Red Hat Linux is released internally
• October 31 codenamed "Halloween" 0.9 is released.
• May 1995 "Mother's Day" 1.0 is released and introduces some iconic branding.
• March 1996 "Picasso" 3.0.3 is released. Version numbers might really matter, check out our Slackware episode to find out how Patrick Volkerding felt about them. TL;DW
• September 2000 Red Hat Linux 7.0 has releases with [their renamed gcc version](features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/163218&mode=thread)
• May 2002 Enter Red Hat Enterprise Linux with version 2.1.
• Sometime within 2002, Warren Togami starts the Fedora Linux Project.
  • It aimed to bring together additional packages for Red Hat Linux.
  • It wasn't a distribution on its own. It was Extras for the existing Red Hat Linuxes.
• March 2003 Red Hat Linux 9.0, named Shrike, is released.
• July 2003 Severn, the beta for what would be Red Hat Linux 10, changes to a more open and community focused development process.
• September 2003, Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Linux Project, [merge into The Fedora Project].(https://web.archive.org/web/20031001204515/http://www.fedora.us/).
  • Mailing list announcement
  • Transition info
• Also in September, enter cAos.
  • cAos1-base and cAos1-enhanced couldn't really exist without each other.
• November 2003 Red Hat signals that it's getting out of the Boxed Linux business.
• What was to be Red Hat Linux 10 instead released as Fedora Core 1 with Extras.
• December 2003 the first alpha of cAos.
• Three weeks later, CentOS 3.
• Another week later, CentOS 2 beta.
• Whitebox Linux first release candidate.
• David Parsley registered taolinux.org, and in December, started getting the site together.
• Why Tao Linux?
• June 2006, David had to switch jobs.
• Scientific Linux
• Feburary 2004 the final release cAos-1, the proof of concept,made it to mirrors.
• March 2004 CentOS 3.1 is released.
• Karanbir Singh, or KB, noted that 3.3 was the first proper release.
• February 2005 CentOS receieved a Cease and Desist letter from the lawyers over at Red Hat in regards to using the Red Hat Logos and name on the centos.org website. CentOS's response.
• March 2005 CentOS 4 was released two weeks after its upstream RHEL 4. Coverage was picking up.
• Lance Davis announces that CentOS is separating itself from the cAos project.
• May 2005 cAos 2 is announced, also based on RHEL 3.
• 2008 A new distribution, also called Caos.
• July 2009 Lance Davis, one of the Founders and lead of the CentOS 2 release, had been missing for many months.
  • From the mailing list
  • From the Register
• October 14 2009 Caos Linux 1.0.25 is released and is the last release of Caos, ever.
• January of 2014, Red Hat acquires.
• July 2014 CentOS 7.0 is released.
• 2019 Red Hat leaves Shadowman behind.
• September 2019 Red Hat announces CentOS Stream.
• Also in in September 2019, CentOS Linux 8 and CentOS Stream are released.
• January 2021; Red Hat changes the way their dev subscriptions work.
• December 2021 CentOS 9 Stream is released.

CentOS links

• Main Web Page
• About
• Blog
• Wiki
• Forums
• Mailing Lists
• Git Repositories
• Bug reporting
• IRC
• Planet
• List of CentOS releases

Other Links

• AlmaLinux
• Rocky Linux
• Red Hat Linux family tree

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