you decide whats the story behind this : (click the image for a a full screen grab, note the timestamp on the top right corner) Ok, so this is from the Oracle Enterprise Linux download site, taken earlier today. As far as I can make out, its Oracle… more »

If you are trying to build an rpm from a packed source, where the unpacked source expandes into a non %{name}-%{version} format, you can use the -n option in the %prep section of the .spec to tell rpmbuild to look in the right place ( eg. %prep -n %{name… more »

After a long delay, my fault compleltely, the x86_64 ServerCD CentOS 4.3 is now uploading to http://dev.centos.org/ Check it out and as always, http://bugs.centos.org/ all issues and problems. This iso will move to release unless I hear any major iss… more »

It was a year ago, today, that we released CentOS 4 to the world. And what a year its been! -- Karanbir Singh more »

For those of you interested, the Fosdem/2006 videos are being uploaded to http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/ Recommended viewing : Plan9 Xen dtrace XUL Check out the others as well, there were a fair few that I never made it in ti… more »

Today evening's update was run on my new set of upload scripts, something that _should_ make things faster and easier to get online, but a glitch! in the software ( my fault ) caused a few of the packages to slip through unsigned. Been fixed now, all… more »

Joshua, in your post Redhat BOF at LCA 2006 you seem to be quite wrong about a few things w.r.t CentOS, Just thought I would post the corrections. a) CentOS does not cost a thing. Its GPL'ed end to end, including the distro. Its built by the community… more »

First the link : http://www.karan.org/mock/Xen/ Now, thats the Xen3 setup pkgs for CentOS4/i386, with the lastest Glibc from CentOS4.2 built with the changes required for Xen to work properly. The Kernel version is NOT an EL kernel. its 2.6.12-xen3,… more »

Hey, looks like we made the netcraf survey. Check out their Dec Stats. Colin say: The most successful newcomer is CentOS, which repackages the same software as commercial rivals, while offering free community-based support. And by the looks of it… more »

The single CD Server edition of CentOS 4.2/i386 has now been released. It lets you setup a basic CentOS 4 system along with the server components. Anything else that is needed can then be installed via yum or up2date once the system is running. The r… more »

We all knew that SUSE linux sux. Lots of reason, buts their Anti-OpenSource policy was to blame much. Now take a look at this : OpenSUSE is specifically prohibited from rebuilds and added into / modified into other products, details down this way { vi… more »

I've got up2date and yum2's header format support working on http://centos.karan.org/ repo's. Let me know if it works as it should. If you intend to use this repository under up2date you need to add the following lines into /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources… more »

Looks like I finally have the mock + mock-yum + rpmdb lockup issue fixed on CentOS 4 / x86_64 SMP, and have the build machine rebased over to 4.2. Present status : its building, and its not breaking. ETA in 34 hours or so from now, there will be some… more »

The CentOS team are happy to announce that CentOS 4.2 ( i386, x8664, IA64, s390, s390x, Alpha ) has been released. You can read the entire announcement on the CentOS Website Enjoy! -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } more »

CentOS4/i386 on the intel P-4 powered Mac Dev Kit : jasbone.com has the writeup on how to get OSX, WinXP and CentOS4 on the machine! So much for all the 'only OSX will work on this kit' from Apple. -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } [… more »

As Uli says : Tomorrows glibc will contain the last act of the LinuxThreads saga: its total demise. It's gone for good. And there is much rejoicing! -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } [ Music : Asian Dub Foundation Feat. Snead O'Conno… more »

The Kde-Redhat project provides the latest / greatest KDE packages for all Redhat Linux platforms ( including Fedora Core 2, 3, 4 and Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, which work well on CentOS ) but they do so only for the i386 Arch. I've started play… more »

A few people at LinuxTag picked up on this, but I saw it first on Paul Nasrat's blog : -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } more »

The x86_64 Fedora Extras rpms for CentOS4 and Redhat Enterprise Linux 4, have started building and are being uploaded as they build to http://centos.karan.org/el4/extras/stable/ . Since the source is shared between the i386 and the x86_64 builds, I've… more »

Because I get asked this a few times every week, it merits a post here I think.The FedoraExtras that I am building for CentOS4 ( http://centos.karan.org/ ), work fine with RHEL4 as well as TaoLinux4. And as has been said before as well, the x86/ia32… more »

If you are running CentOS3 or even for that matter any other Linux distro and want to upgrade your machine to CentOS4 - and the machine is sitting on the other side of the globe - the easiest and most effective way to do so is using the remote vnc instal… more »

Update: Didnt make it today, some unplanned family engagements kept me away. My loss, I guess. I hope everyone had a good time. -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org } more »

http://centos.karan.org is what you want. Included on the main index page are all the details you need to get started, including a drop-in .repo file. i386 in the mix. about 750 pkgs there already, another 300 odd coming soon. x86_64 next. -- Kar… more »