CentOS 7
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:29 am
It's gone live. Looks like they're aiming more squarely at the cloud instances with this one. Of particular interest is this
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/cento ... 20393.htmlNumbering
CentOS 7.0-1406 introduces a new numbering scheme that we want to
further develop into the life of CentOS-7. The 0 component maps to the
upstream realease, whose code this release is built from. The 1406
component indicates the monthstamp of the code included in the release
( in this case, June 2014 ). By using a monthstamp we are able to
respin and reissue updated media for things like container and cloud
images, that are regularly refreshed, while still retaining a
connection to the base distro version.
In order to facilitate Special Interest Groups to further extend the
CentOS Linux platform, we are also using component codes. The main
distro is, therefore, titled 'Core'. SIGs would be able to adopt any
name they need and deliver that by overriding the base centos-release rpm.