Community Central

Visit CentOS and Fedora and many other projects in Community Central, part of Red Hat Central in the expo hall. CentOS experts will be available to talk about CentOS Stream, CentOS SIGs, EPEL, bootc, and image-mode Linux. We'll also have speakers from Community Day at scheduled times for followup conversations.

Advancing application development using ARM: Fedora Asahi Remix and CentOS Hyperscale Asahi Remix

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   Monday, May 19 | 11:00 AM - 11:40 AM EDT | BCEC - Room 251 (Level 2)

   Davide Cavalca • Neal Gompa

Enterprises are now looking to extend into modern ARM architecture—or beyond traditional x86 hardware platforms—to better optimize for future hardware and workloads. Fedora Asahi Remix and CentOS Hyperscale Asahi Remix are popular community projects to support running Fedora Linux and CentOS Stream on Apple Silicon hardware. Together, they offer complete, high-quality Linux desktop and server experiences for Apple Macs.

In this session, we’ll share how these projects can deliver value and opportunities for continuously developing and qualifying workloads for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on ARM-based server hardware and cloud environments, including:

• An overview of the Asahi Linux project.
• An introduction to Fedora Asahi Remix and CentOS Hyperscale Asahi Remix.
• Strategies for efficient application development on ARM.
• Examples from Meta and Velocity Limitless of these projects to support and improve ARM Linux workloads.

Embracing the community enterprise platform with CentOS Stream and EPEL

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   Monday, May 19 | 11:00 AM - 11:40 AM EDT | BCEC - Room 252A (Level 2)

   Carl George • Amy Marrich

CentOS Stream and Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) are key components of the Red Hat ecosystem. As the major version branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Stream serves as both a stable foundation to build on and a preview of upcoming improvements in future Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor versions. EPEL enhances CentOS Stream with additional functionality through a large repository of community-maintained packages. Together, they deliver a powerful combination for users seeking a community enterprise platform.

In this session, we'll explore how CentOS Stream and EPEL are evolving, how they complement each other, and how you can get involved in improving these projects. Whether you're managing infrastructure, building and deploying applications, planning for the future, or simply curious about how it all fits together, this talk will help you better understand and leverage these important community resources.

Bootable containers with CentOS Stream and Podman Desktop

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   Monday, May 19 | 2:15 PM - 2:55 PM EDT | BCEC - Room 253ABC (Level 2)

   Stevan Le Meur • Kevin Dubois • Cedric Clyburn

The world of containerization is advancing rapidly, and bootable containers are at the forefront of transforming operating system (OS) deployment and management. But what exactly are bootable containers? They go beyond traditional containers by packaging entire operating systems, combining the agility of containers with the capabilities of full OS deployment. With Podman Desktop, you’ll explore how to create, manage, and deploy these bootable OS images seamlessly.

This session will guide you through building a custom bootable container image based on CentOS Stream 9, complete with an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code generation application. From configuring the environment to deploying bootable disk images on cloud and bare metal, you’ll master the essentials of packaging OS images with application workloads that are consistent, immutable, and easily updatable. Join us to discover a new frontier in containerization!

Fedora on RISC-V hardware

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   Monday, May 19 | 2:15 PM - 2:55 PM EDT | BCEC - Room 251 (Level 2)

   Jefro Osier-Mixon

Red Hat has quietly been active in the RISC-V community for many years. In addition to Fedora's support for many RISC-V platforms, we are seeing growing interest from the community. In this session, we’ll deliver insights on Fedora and potentially CentOS support for RISC-V platforms, including where to find hardware, how to install and run Fedora, and what platforms are our focus for the future. We’ll explore RISC-V platform trends in the automotive, AI, edge and Internet of Things (IoT), and space and aviation segments. We’ll also share the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) project, a collaborative effort by industry leaders to support development of open source software for the RISC-V architecture and encourage growth in commercial and other sectors.

Year of the Enterprise Linux Desktop—coming soon?

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   Monday, May 19 | 2:15 PM - 2:55 PM EDT | BCEC - Room 252A (Level 2)

   Michel Lind

Could we actually reach the Year of the Linux Desktop soon? Join this session to hear how an enterprise Linux distribution could potentially deliver a just-right Linux desktop by combining a 3-year release schedule with a smaller package set—leaving more room for community-maintained packages. We’ll explore workflows for making these packages available, including challenges and best practices. You’ll also get a quick demonstration comparing a stock Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 desktop with a version running packages from Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)—both GNOME and KDE desktops—as well as a comparison with Fedora running GNOME and KDE.

Upstream developments in bootable containers

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   Monday, May 19 | 3:30 PM - 4:10 PM EDT | BCEC - Room 253ABC (Level 2)

   Anish Bhatt • Colin Walters • Ben Breard

Image mode extends the benefits, technology, and ecosystem of containers from applications to entire operating systems and infrastructure. Image mode for Fedora and CentOS provides the stable development platform that supports image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this session, we’ll share the latest and upcoming developments in bootable containers and show how to build immutable systems, with real-world examples from adopters.