February 13, 2023

Episode 3:16: The Cent of a Distro

1 hour 15 minutes

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CentOS

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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

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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.

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