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CentOS Stream 10 Taking Shape, Fedora-Flavored Kernels From Kmods SIG

([Operating Systems] 73 Minutes Ago CentOS For June 2024)


While [1]CentOS 7 reached end of life a few days ago, CentOS Stream 10 as the future basis of RHEL 10 continues advancing along with other ongoing initiatives in the CentOS Stream space.

The CentOS project has published their June 2024 status update to outline interesting work carried out over the past few weeks. In June the newest CentOS Stream 10 compose images were made available for testing and development. These CentOS Stream 10 images aren't yet intended for production but strictly for early testing / development / feedback. CentOS Stream 10 targets are also now available via the CentOS Community Build Service.

With the CentOS Kmods Special Interest Group (SIG), in addition to their kernel modules for Enterprise Linux kernels, the group has begun providing Fedora-flavored kernel builds. These Fedora-flavored kernels for CentOS use are tracking the latest Linux stable kernels as well as Linux LTS kernel versions.

The CentOS ISA SIG has also been making progress in providing optimized package builds targeted at higher x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. They've also been able to upstream some x86 string function performance optimizations from their SIG repositories into mainline CentOS Stream. There is also a new "centos-release-isa-override" package available on CentOS Stream 9 for overriding packages with CPU optimizations that cannot be built into CentOS Stream 9 proper. The group also highlighted my recent [2]CentOS Optimized ISA benchmarks .

More details on recent CentOS activities can be found via the [3]CentOS.org blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-7-EOL-Next-Week

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/centos-isa-optimized

[3] https://blog.centos.org/2024/06/june-2024-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=june-2024-news


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I have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete these
Calculating Engines. I have also declined several offers of great personal
advantage to myself. But, notwithstanding the sacrifice of these advantages
for the purpose of maturing an engine of almost intellectual power, and
after expending from my own private fortune a larger sum than the government
of England has spent on that machine, the execution of which it only
commenced, I have received neither an acknowledgement of my labors, not even
the offer of those honors or rewards which are allowed to fall within the
reach of men who devote themselves to purely scientific investigations...
If the work upon which I have bestowed so much time and thought were
a mere triumph over mechanical difficulties, or simply curious, or if the
execution of such engines were of doubtful practicability or utility, some
justification might be found for the course which has been taken; but I
venture to assert that no mathematician who has a reputation to lose will
ever publicly express an opinion that such a machine would be useless if
made, and that no man distinguished as a civil engineer will venture to
declare the construction of such machinery impracticable...
And at a period when the progress of physical science is obstructed
by that exhausting intellectual and manual labor, indispensable for its
advancement, which it is the object of the Analytical Engine to relieve, I
think the application of machinery in aid of the most complicated and abtruse
calculations can no longer be deemed unworthy of the attention of the country.
In fact, there is no reason why mental as well as bodily labor should not
be economized by the aid of machinery.
-- Charles Babbage, "The Life of a Philosopher"