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05:37 | AMD Building Linux Team In a recent report by Michael Larabel at Phoronix -- a site we’re happy to recommend for its Linux-specific benchmarks -- it was reported that AMD is growing its team of Linux developers. AMD currently has job listings for a Linux Kernel development manager, described on the AMD careers page as a mentor to a team of developers to enable design and implementation of “Linux operating system features supporting AMD CPUs.” The job lists responsibilities as incl...

Doing both CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux would mean doing both poorly claims CentOS board member Tim Anderson Tue 22 Dec 2020 // 09:30 UTC Share Copy Red Hats Karsten Wade, a Senior Community Architect and member of the CentOS board, has defended the decision to kill off CentOS Linux in favour of CentOS Stream, saying the two projects were "antithetical" and Stream is a satisfactory replacement in most cases. CentOS Linux is downstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)...

Community Concerns Prompt Red Hat to Drop CentOS for CentOS Stream According to Red Hat, CentOS is being ditched for CentOS Stream because it "was not actually providing that much usefulness to Red Hat." Red Hats decision earlier to stop development of the Linux distribution CentOS to concentrate on CentOS Stream has created a brouhaha on social media. Thats because it has IT pros who are dependent on the popular server operating system scurrying to figure how best to replace it now that ...