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 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.

CentOS links

• Main Web Page
• About
• Blog
• Wiki
• Forums
• Mailing Lists
• Git Repositories
• Bug reporting
• IRC
• Planet
• List of CentOS releases

Other Links

• AlmaLinux
• Rocky Linux
• Red Hat Linux family tree

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1. A little podman
2. Manifest v3
3. Browsers
4. More Browsers?
5. And what do you know? More browsers

0:00 Cold Open
1:30 Giving Podman a Whirl
10:14 What's Wrong with a Few Boxes?
18:08 Browser Watch: Firefox 109
22:47 Browser Watch: Manifest v3 History
31:44 Browser Watch: A Little More Manifest v3
40:03 Browser Watch: The Chromium Scrolls
48:24 Browser Watch: A Fix to the Web
56:06 Feedback: Johnny and LinuxGameCast
58:51 Kid3 Turns 20
1:00:39 QR Codes for All!
1:05:22 Community Focus: ASUS NLC
1:09:41 App Focus: Gnome Web + Tangram
1:17:51 Next Time: CentOS
1:20:03 Stinger

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Firefox 109 brings manifest v3 support

• What are we talking about?

Maniwhat, now? Version who?

• 2018, Google proposes Manifest v3.
• July 2019, The EFF notes.
• Then in September of 2019, Firefox responded to the Manifest v3 announcement.
• April 2020, Vivaldi, with version 3.0, debuts its ad and tracker blocker as a means to bypass the manifest v3 issue altogether.
• Brave had always had an ad blocker, but beefed up its performance and ability in 2019.
• November 2020, Google finalizes and publishes Manifest v3.
• December 2021, The EFF reminds us.
• uBlock Origin Lite exists.

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Moar Browser Watch

Chromium answers Leo's prayers! In 109, Linux scrolling seems to have been fixed.

• He complained about it in Season 2 Episode 16.
• The Bug. ### A fix to the web
• Brave's been blocking the cookie consent banners.

Feedback

• Thanks Johnny (Aromatic Dev) for having the Linux Game Cast folks give us a shout.

A couple of other topics

• Kid3 turns 20
• qrencode
• DuckDuckGo instant answers can make QR codes too, just type qr code WHATEVER e.g. qr code https://linuxuserspace.show.

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Community Focus

• The ASUS NoteBook Linux Community
• Their GitLab

App Focus Gnome Web + Tangram

• Gnome Web
• Tangram

Next Time

The history of CentOS, a few thoughts, and whatever else we can cram into the show*

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1. XFace gets a new face
2. CentOS rocks your world
3. Mozilla Watch
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XFCE 4.14 --> 4.16

• Official Announcement
• Official Tour, highlighting the new color palette
• https://9to5linux.com/xfce-4-16-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new
• TL;DR - Fractional scaling. New Icons. Cleaned up dialogs and settings menus.

CentOS Linux announcement

• CentOS
• Official Announcement
• Old "Rough" Timeline
  • Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL --> wait some more time --> Centos
• New "Rough" Timeline
  • Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL
• Rocky Linux
• Project Lenix
• Oracle Linux

Mozilla Watch...

• Visual refresh meta bug AKA proton --> photon
  • https://www.techradar.com/news/get-ready-for-a-radical-firefox-redesign
  • https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/02/mozilla-is-working-on-a-firefox-design-refresh/
  • https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/01/firefox-proton/

Wishlist for 2021

• Dan
  • I think the Pine 64 future looks good. My wish is that the time frame is closer to the 6 month range for the next gen stuff to start to materialize.
  • Intel gets their new graphics stack rolled out for laptops.
• Leo
  • Pine/Pi Moar Cores! Enthusiast server platform.
  • Firefox becomes a major player again. Nature abhors a monoculture.
• Joe
  • My long suffering 4k laptop screen woes remedied (installers that support Hidpi)
  • RPi sata or M.2 ports (even MMC)

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