IBM/Clones: Rocky Linux 9.2, Fedora Kernel, and CentOS Board Meeting Recap
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MontaVista Announces Rocky Linux 9.2 MVShield Support
MontaVista® Software, LLC, a leader in commercial Embedded Linux® products and services, announces immediate availability for Rocky Linux 9.2 for customers needing commercial support and maintenance for Rocky Linux. MontaVista’s commitment to Rocky Linux continues despite the recent changes to the CentOS project source distribution announced by Red Hat.
The Rocky Linux project was founded in late 2020 as a successor in principle to CentOS Linux, generating an impressive ecosystem around the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) over the last few years. MontaVista Software joined RESF as a Principal Sponsor early in the process and continues to support and drive strategic alignment with its products and services.
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Kamil Páral: Bisecting Fedora kernel
This post shows how to bisect a Fedora kernel to find the source of a regression. I needed that recently and I found no good guide, so I’m at least capturing my notes here, perhaps you find it useful. This approach can be used to identify which exact commit caused a bad kernel behavior on your hardware, and then report it to kernel maintainers. Note, you need to have a reliable way of reproducing the problem. If it happens randomly and infrequently, it’s much harder to debug.
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CentOS Board Meeting Recap, August 2023
The recording of the August CentOS Board meeting is now available. Watch the recording Read the minutes The recording has timestamps so you can skip to the parts that interest you. Here are a few highlights of the meeting: We got an update on the status of trusting SIGs for secureboot (Issue 67).