• The Catchup Episode (We've missed so much!)
• The Red Hat Recap
• Browser Watch...ing!
• Some feedback, and a focus

The Video Podcast
https://youtu.be/ZKm9vgJzAO8

401 Audio Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
2:16 The Gentoo Checkin
11:33 We Have a Lemmy!
19:24 Red Hat Recap
46:09 Browser Watch
1:05:21 Feedback
1:23:05 Community Focus: Linux Matters
1:27:03 App Focus: Jerboa & Memmy
1:34:48 Next Time: Debian
1:37:09 Stinger

Banter

• Gentoo check in - Use the Handbook! The wiki is just great in general.
• Lemmy
• The Linux User Space Lemmy instance
• feddit's community browser
• Another Lemmy explorer

Announcements

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RH takes their source and goes home

2019

• July - IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat. Jim Whitehurst said at the time.

2020

• December - CentOS Stream announced as the successor to CentOS Linux.
• an FAQ linked in the CentOS announcement about Stream

2021

• January - Red Hat announces more free RHEL.
• February - Brian Exelbierd noted on the Red Hat Developer site.
• March - Alma Linux 8.3 was released
• June - Rocky Linux followed with their 8.4 release

2022

• Red Hat was posting 15% revenue increases every quarter of the year.
• IBM, despite its projected 3900 person layoff was growing at similar rates.

2023

• April - Red Hat announement
• Ben Cotton and others were laid off.
• June - Red Hat announce that CentOS sources will no longer be on github
• Brian Exelbierd's post from February 2021 changed.
• Mike McGrath writes a clarification post
• Rocky Linux announces that they'll possibly be using the Universal Base Images
• July - Alma Linux no longer aims for bug-for-bug compatibility.

SUSE and Oracle

• Oracle's press release
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE's statement
• SUSE Liberty Linux
• SUSE Manager

More Announcements

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Browser Watch

• Firefox 115 brings hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs and more.
• Vivaldi 6.1 they found a way to use Bing Chat.
• Edge blocks notification spam, now!
• Opera is relaunching as Opera One.

Feedback

Sebastian

• SerenityOS
• Ladybird Browser
• Andreas Kling on YouTube

Rich

• Greenbone Open Source Vulnerability Management
• Leo recommends The Linux Commandline by Willian Shotts
• Dan recommends Learn Linux TV
• If there is something specific you want to know more about let us know.

Scout

• HP Elite Mini 800 PCs
• Lenovo M75q Mini PCs
• Dell OptiPlex Micro PCs
• The a11y project
• Orca is part of Gnome
• Other Gnome accessibility tools
• KDE accessibility tools

Housekeeping

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Linux Matters Podcast

• Website
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App Focus Jerboa and Memmy

• Jerboa in the Google Play Store
• Jerboa in FDroid
• Jerboa GitHub repo
• Memmy in the Apple store
• Memmy GitHub repo

Next Time

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

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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

Watch this episode on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52MnZVvVumc

Banter

• Leo's font issue
• The bug
• HUGE Thanks to Carl George for technical help with this episode.

Announcements

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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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Next Time

We will discuss a couple of topics and some feedback. Our next distro is Endless OS

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