[CentOS-announce] CentOS-7 beta candidate for AArch64 platforms

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We are pleased to announce the public beta release of CentOS Linux 7 for

AArch64 compatible hardware.

 

We've addressed a number of issues discovered from the previous 2 weeks

of alpha testing, and feel that the release is stable enough to

transition to beta.

 

 

Improvements from Alpha

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Improved package selection: A number of additional packages have been

added, including libreoffice, evolution, abrt, and more.

 

Updated kernel: Some non-fatal kernel errors have been address by moving

to a 4.1rc based kernel version. This also adds ACPI functionality to

the platform.

 

Improved Group selection: The installer now offers a larger group

selection from the previous minimal-only install.

 

 

Installation

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Installation guides and documentation will be provided via the CentOS

wiki, at http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/AArch64

 

 

Download

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The full (unsigned) install tree is available at

http://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/7/os/aarch64/

 

 

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Contributing

 

The AArch64 effort is meant to be a community effort as part of the

AltArch SIG (http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch), and

we welcome enthusiasts and vendors to contribute patches, fixes,

documentation, etc. In the AArch64 Extras repository, we have provided

the mock package and dependencies so that community members can more

easily contribute, as well as testing their own builds locally. Please

submit patches, fixes, etc to the Arm-Dev list

(http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev) for discussion and

acceptance.

 

We encourage vendors to come and join this effort, we have a loose

organization focused on the alternative architectures build process and

welcome interaction at the group level. Please get in touch with me

(jperrin ( -at -) centos.org) or K Singh ( kbsingh ( -at -) centos.org ) to find out more

details.

 

The wider CentOS Ecosystem is also welcome to engage with us, both at

the project and code level. If you are working with a project that

interfaces, manages or develops on top of CentOS, specially in the

virtualization, cloud, container and infrastructure management areas -

we would love to have you guys get involved. While we don't have a lot

of resources, we are working with a few vendors to build up a community

resource pool that we would encourage other projects to share their

development, testing and delivery around CentOS Linux for aarch64.

 

 

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Jim Perrin

The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org

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