[CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) on x86_64

[news 28]

 

I would like to announce the general availability of the following

CentOS AltArch 7 Releases:

 

* CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for i686

* CentOS AltArch UserLand 7 (1511) for Armhfp

* CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for PowerPC64 (TechPreview)

* CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for PowerPC8 LE (TechPreview)

 

We anticipate CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for Aarch64 will be ready for

release within the coming days, and will be announced independently.

 

The CentOS AltArch SIG is a group of people working to build alternative

architecture support derived from CentOS Linux's sources. You can find

more details about the AltArch group at

https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch including details

on how to get involved and ways to get help for architecture specific

issues.

 

Releases under the AltArch SIG are hosted at

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/ and available from external mirrors

via rsync, http, ftp as usual, however under the /altarch/ path. Yum

configs shipped in the altarch builds points at mirror.centos.org

instead of mirrorlist or the external mirrors, as we are still working

through the mechanics to facilitate the wider mirrorlist process. We

hope to have this in place within the next 2 months, and updates to the

yum configs will be issued, when ready, via an updated centos-release rpm.

 

We are hosting a CentOS Dojo in Brussels, Belgium on the 29th Jan 2016.

Lots of the key people working on the AltArch builds will be present

there and it would be a great forum to engage with these groups. You can

get the details for the event at

https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Brussels2016 including the

registration links.

 

In order to bootstrap these builds, we have turned on direct downloads

of this content from mirror.centos.org. We do encourage people with the

capacity to help seed with external mirrors. Details on howto run a

CentOS Mirror are available at

https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreatePublicMirrors

 

A key part of our AltArch plans is to make resources available to all

the other SIG's in the CentOS environment, so they are able to build,

test, deliver their content for these architectures. We are working on

setting things up, and hope to start rolling out altarch support for

https://cbs.centos.org/ in the first quarter of 2016. If you are engaged

in any of the SIGs and would like to find out more details, please come

along to our buildsystems meeting that takes place on Mondays in

#centos-devel on irc.freenode.net. Details on this meeting and the other

SIG meetings can be found in our community meetings calendar published

at https://www.centos.org/community/calendar/ .

 

Bug reports and feedback about specific packages should be filed at

https://bugs.centos.org/ against the relevant package name, for project

CentOS Linux 7, in the same manner as you would for x86_64. However, do

mention the architecture as applicable.

 

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CentOS AltArch 7 (1511) for i686 : This architecture build supports

32-bit Intel/AMD x86 machines and 32 bit IOT x86 boards.

 

SIG Notes: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386

 

* CentOS-7-i386-DVD-1511.iso

sha256sum :

6af64d8371ed8fb95a56c99530f0dc3eb287e58f72c009c686db0fb80c39f83f

direct link :

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-DVD-1511.iso

 

* CentOS-7-i386-Everything-1511.iso

sha256sum :

918e0ade9f642c93531c414defeecfc9b2c2a9589d57642d690e46e42b0af82a

direct link :

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-Everything-1511.iso

 

* CentOS-7-i386-LiveGNOME-1511.iso

sha256sum :

a03af3c7f6c75c74e1da5d1551ceaf5922427762c5cd6503f4f5e972737134ed

direct link :

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-LiveGNOME-1511.iso

 

* CentOS-7-i386-LiveKDE-1511.iso

sha256sum :

9fdef81423b872c361bac3ac55718822b4420de1645a4da8d7a255ae500965fc

direct link :

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-LiveKDE-1511.iso

 

* CentOS-7-i386-Minimal-1511.iso

sha256sum :

df6edebec370bdee59e67eb70fab7ddc2fcf4c437803ca9e3213552b3908c4e1

direct link :

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-Minimal-1511.iso

 

* CentOS-7-i386-NetInstall-1511.iso

sha256sum :

b106a0c13c86db86aaf821b66da1119063479e8776b8711dbbd35042b16bfd6d

direct link :

http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/i386/CentOS-7-i386-NetInstall-1511.iso

 

 

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CentOS AltArch UserLand 7 (1511) for Armhfp : This architecture build

delivers support for ARMv7hl devices including the Raspberry pi2, Cubie

Truck, Bananapi and similar hardware.

 

SIG Notes: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32

 

The armhfp build is delivered as a userland build, implying that kernel

and bootloader delivered is not derived from the CentOS Linux 7 distro,

but comes from either an upstream kernel.org mainline kernel or is a

vendor supported kernel for their own hardware piece. As such, the

Armhfp build does not aim to deliver a complete feature set, and is

labelled as a UserLand release. There are also no installer images

delivered for this architecture. The images shipped are ready to run and

are board specific. While there is plenty of desktop and X related

support available, our focus for these builds has been towards the

server and IoT roles.