Carl George

Learn about the ecosystems in the Fedora and CentOS projects, and how you can package software for both. We will present an overview of the Fedora project followed by an overview CentOS ecosystem. We'll show how both systems are developed and what the various special interest groups are doing. We will then provide a packaging workshop where you can learn how to package your favorite software, whether you want it in Fedora, EPEL, a CentOS SIG, or just for your own personal use.

Learn how CentOS works and how you can make it work better for you. CentOS is the open source, community operating system that releases just ahead of RHEL. The CentOS project also provides a space for people to build technologies on top of the operating system for specific use cases, from clouds to cars. We will present an overview of the CentOS ecosystem, followed by a workshop teaching you how to make your own packages.

EPEL is a yum repo of community maintained packages for use on RHEL and related distributions. Historically, each version of the EPEL repo has launched after the corresponding version of RHEL. For version 9, we were able to flip that around and launch EPEL first. This talk will tell the story of our journey to EPEL 9.