Episode Details

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

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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