The History of CentOS

January 25, 2024

From Season 3 Episode 16 – The Cent of a Distro
Video: https://youtu.be/52MnZVvVumc
Audio: https://linuxuserspace.show/316

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CentOS Linux the History
July 1994 The “preview” release for Red Hat Linux is released internally
October 31 codenamed “Halloween” 0.9 is released.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux
May 1995 “Mother’s Day” 1.0 is released and introduces some iconic branding.
March 1996 “Picasso” 3.0.3 is released. Version numbers might really matter, check out our Slackware episode to find out how Patrick Volkerding felt about them.

TL;DW
http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general#0
September 2000 Red Hat Linux 7.0 has releases with their renamed gcc version
features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/163218&mode=thread
May 2002 Enter Red Hat Enterprise Linux with version 2.1
https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078
Sometime within 2002, Warren Togami starts the Fedora Linux Project
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Wtogami?rd=WarrenTogami
It aimed to bring together additional packages for Red Hat Linux
https://web.archive.org/web/20031008123733/http://www.fedora.us/index-main.html
It wasn’t a distribution on its own. It was Extras for the existing Red Hat Linuxes
https://web.archive.org/web/20030219051938/http://www.fedora.us/fedora.html
March 2003 Red Hat Linux 9.0, named Shrike, is released
July 2003 Severn, the beta for what would be Red Hat Linux 10, changes to a more open and community focused development process
https://lwn.net/Articles/40201/
September 2003, Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Linux Project, [merge into The Fedora Project
https://web.archive.org/web/20031001204515/http://www.fedora.us/
Mailing list announcement
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-September/msg00137.html
Transition info
https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7169
Also in September, enter cAos
https://web.archive.org/web/20120507000526/http://www.caoslinux.org/about.html
cAos1-base and cAos1-enhanced couldn’t really exist without each other
https://web.archive.org/web/20050207043816/https://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=406
November 2003 Red Hat signals that it’s getting out of the Boxed Linux business
https://lwn.net/Articles/56947/
What was to be Red Hat Linux 10 instead released as Fedora Core 1 with Extras
https://web.archive.org/web/20031107044428/http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES.html
December 2003 the first alpha of cAos
https://web.archive.org/web/20040128013252/http://caosity.org:80/
Three weeks later, CentOS 3
https://web.archive.org/web/20040202083913/http://caosity.org/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=10
Another week later, CentOS 2 beta
https://web.archive.org/web/20040202084601/http://caosity.org/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=11
Whitebox Linux first release candidate
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/news.html
David Parsley registered taolinux.org, and in December, started getting the site together
https://web.archive.org/web/20040111131901/http://taolinux.org:80/
Why Tao Linux
https://web.archive.org/web/20040704030839/http://taolinux.org/?q=node/view/5
June 2006, David had to switch jobs
https://web.archive.org/web/20061013083339/http://taolinux.org/?q=node/view/8
Scientific Linux
https://scientificlinux.org/
Feburary 2004 the final release cAos-1, the proof of concept,made it to mirrors
https://web.archive.org/web/20040402100908/http://caosity.org/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=22