Episode 3:16: The Cent of a Distro

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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52MnZVvVumc Banter Leo's font issue (https://mastodon.social/@leochavez/109809074194178438) The bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144433#c6) HUGE Thanks to Carl George for technical help with this episode. Announcements Give us a sub on YouTube (https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube) You can watch us live on Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) the day after an episode drops. If you like what we're doing here, make sure to send us a buck over at https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace CentOS Linux the History July 1994 The "preview" release for Red Hat Linux is released internally (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux) 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 (https://www.linuxuserspace.show/219) to find out how Patrick Volkerding felt about them. TL;DW (http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general#0) 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 (https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078) with version 2.1. Sometime within 2002, Warren Togami starts the Fedora Linux Project (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Wtogami?rd=WarrenTogami). It aimed to bring together (https://web.archive.org/web/20031008123733/http://www.fedora.us/index-main.html) additional packages for Red Hat Linux. It wasn't a distribution on its own (https://web.archive.org/web/20030219051938/http://www.fedora.us/fedora.html). 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 (https://lwn.net/Articles/40201/). 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 (https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-September/msg00137.html) Transition info (https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7169) Also in September, enter cAos (https://web.archive.org/web/20120507000526/http://www.caoslinux.org/about.html). cAos1-base and cAos1-enhanced couldn't really exist without each other (https://web.archive.org/web/20050207043816/https://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=406). November 2003 Red Hat signals that it's getting out of the Boxed Linux business (https://lwn.net/Articles/56947/). What was to be Red Hat Linux 10 instead released as Fedora Core 1 with (https://web.archive.org/web/20031107044428/http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES.html) Extras. December 2003 the first alpha (https://web.archive.org/web/20040128013252/http://caosity.org:80/) of cAos. Three weeks later, CentOS 3 (https://web.archive.org/web/20040202083913/http://caosity.org/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=10). Another week later, CentOS 2 beta (https://web.archive.org/web/20040202084601/http://caosity.org/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=11). Whitebox Linux first release candidate (http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/news.html). David Parsley registered taolinux.org, and in December, started getting the site together (https://web.archive.org/web/20040111131901/http://taolinux.org:80/). Why Tao Linu