Note: The CentOS Development team had a normal meeting today and Lance Davis was in attendance. In the meeting a majority of issues were resolved right away and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for any unresolved issues. There should be no impact to any CentOS users moving forward.

July 30, 2009 04:39 UTC

This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers

The eigth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM 2008) will take place the 23th and 24th February 2008. FOSDEM is organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. This year's meeting is taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM meetings are recognized as "The best Free and Open Source events in Europe."

The CentOS project will be represented at FOSDEM by three of our Core Development members (Karanbir Singh, Ralph Angenendt, Dag Wieers) and several members of the CentOS community.

The CentOS project will have a Booth at FOSDEM for both days of the event, where we will display our current Distribution (CentOS 5.1) and the newly released CentOS 5.1 Live CD.

The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of the CentOS 5.1 i386 Live CD. This CD is based on our CentOS-5.1 i386 distribution.

It can be used as a Workstation, with the following software:

# openoffice.org 2.0.4
# firefox 1.5.0.12
# thunderbird 1.5.0.12
# pidgin 2.0.2
# scribus 1.3.3.2
# xchat 2.6.6
# k3b 0.12.17
# gimp 2.2.13

It can also be used as a rescue CD with the following tools:

# memtest86+-1.65
# Full set of LVM and RAID command line tools
# QTParted
# Nmap and NMapFE
# traceroute
# samba-3.0.25b with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows file shares
# System Log Viewer
# GUI Hardware Device Manager
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You can get the CentOS 5.1 i386 Live CD from the CentOS mirrors:
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/

* Filename: CentOS-5.1-i386-LiveCD.iso
* Size: 720766976
* MD5Sum: 32de2ac951b3f50144d833241eaf0100
* SHA1Sum: 0912d455d0192fe3823bcb17795d2e0186a47d43

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The mailing list full announcement is at:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-February/014688.html

CentOS uses the yum dependency solver for doing updates and not the RHN (normal) up2date mechanism when using up2date.

Due to this difference, there is a problem with the Seamonkey upgrade to replace Mozilla using up2date CentOS-4, because it does not see Seamonkey as obsoleting Mozilla. (This is a problem with the yum depsolver that is included in up2date).

Due to this problem, to upgrade from Mozilla to Seamonkey use this command from the command line instead of up2date:

yum upgrade

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Yum is the official upgrade tool for CentOS. If you are currently using up2date, you should consider switching to yum as this is not the first issue that up2date has had when doing "obsoletes" type updates.

David Parsley, the creator of Tao Linux, has announced a plan for the retirement of Tao Linux. David has created some packages and procedures to allow users of Tao 1.0 to upgrade CentOS 3 and users of Tao 4 to upgrade to CentOS 4. David is now also the newest member of the CentOS Development Team.

The CentOS development team has worked with David many times in the past and the Tao / CentOS relationship has been strong since both our foundings (CentOS has long hosted the Tao bugs database, for example).

The CentOS project would like to thank David for his help over the years and we would like to officially welcome him to the CentOS team. We would also like to welcome all the Tao users to CentOS.

CentOS has 3 mailing lists, a forum, a bug tracker, and several IRC channels to help tao users with the transition.

The CentOS team would like to publicly thank Sun Microsystems Inc., the OpenSolaris™ Project and the OpenSolaris™ BrandZ Community for the generous hardware donation they have made to the CentOS Project.

The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS-4.3 in the following architectures:

i386 - This distribution supports AMD (K6, K7, Thunderbird, Athlon, Athlon XP, Sempron), Pentium (Classic, Pro, II, III, 4, Celeron, M, Xeon), VIA (C3, Eden, Luke, C7) processors.

x86_64 - This distribution supports AMD 64 (Athlon 64, Opteron) and Intel Pentium (Xeon EM64T) processors.

ia64 - This distribution supports Intel Itanium2 processors.

There may be a separate release announcement for individual architectures.

(Note: CentOS -4.3 for s390, s390x, alpha, ppc, sparc is in progress and will be announced later)

The CentOS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the
Cluster Suite 4 (CS) and Global File System 6.1 (GFS) for CentOS-4 for
the i386 and x86_64 architectures.

The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS-4.2 in the following architectures:

i386 - This distribution supports AMD (K6, K7, Thunderbird, Athlon, Athlon XP, Sempron), Pentium (Classic, Pro, II, III, 4, Celeron, M, Xeon), VIA (C3, Eden, Luke, C7) processors.

x86_64 - This distribution supports AMD (Athlon 64, Opteron) and Intel Pentium (Xeon EM64T) processors.

ia64 - This distribution supports Intel Itanium2 processors.

s390 - This distribution supports IBM S/390 processors.

s390x - This distribution supports IBM Z-Series servers.

alpha - This distribution supports the DEC Alpha processor.

There may be a separate release announcement for individual architectures.

The "2005 Readers' Choice Awards" voting is in progress at Linux Journal, and CentOS is Nominated in the distribution: category.

So ... all you guys and gals who think CentOS is the best thing ever, get over to:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8266

and vote for CentOS :)
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Also, since write ins are allowed on the e-mailed ballot, if you don't have a favorite for the "web hosting service:" category, might I suggest you pick your favorite from the hosting companies on our website who donate servers to the CentOS project:

http://www.centos.org/mirrors/

(one hosting company who is making a server donation now, but it isn't quite setup yet ... and isn't on the donor list just yet is: http://www.eurovps.com/ )
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This is the first round of voting, which ends June 27th and then there will be a final ballot.

Make sure to send in the e-mail ballot in plain text ... and not HTML.