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Episode 3:16: The Cent of a Distro
Season 3
Published 3 years, 1 month ago
Description
Coming up in this episode
- CentOS
- ...
- ...
- 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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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/).
- Also in September, enter cAos.
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