Produced by the CentOS Project, the Community ENTerprise Operating
System (CentOS) aims to provide a free enterprise class computing
platform. CentOS is a 100% compatible rebuild of RedHat
Enterprise Linux, with its changes mainly consisting of the
removal
of RedHat's branding and artwork. The CentOS Project is not
affiliated or financially supported by RedHat. It is widely regarded in
the Linux community as it keeps up to date with RedHat's releases.
The distribution is targeted at the server market and is designed to
provide a stable Linux solution for individuals and organizations which
do not need commercial support. CentOS is often provided as
an
available distribution by internet hosting companies.
The i386 version supports AMD (K6, K7, Thunderbird, Athlon, Athlon XP,
Sempron), Pentium (Classic, Pro, II, III, 4, Celeron, M, Xeon), VIA
(C3, Eden, Luke, C7) processors. The amd64 / x86-64 version works on
AMD Athlon 64 & Opteron and Intel Xeon & EM64T
processors.
CentOS 5.1 Key
Facts
Developer:
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The CentOS
Project |
Price:
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Free to
download
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Released:
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2
December 2007
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Installation
Media:
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CD (6 -
i386 7
- x86-64), DVD (1), BitTorrent
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Architectures
supported:
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Intel
x86, Intel
IA-64, PowerPC, AMD64, Itanium II, zSeries, S/390 |
Package
Management:
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RPM
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Official
Website:
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www.centos.org
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Reviews
5.x (current release)
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polishlinux,
Enterprise
Networking Planet, LinuxRonin,
blogspot,
Raiden's
Realm, Linux.com,
Heitor Cardozo
(in Portugese)
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4.x
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The
Jem Report, NewsForge, LinuxPlanet, Software
in Review, ABC
Linuxu
(Czech)
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Selected
Websites
Recommended Books
Last Updated Wednesday, March 12 2008 @ 02:31 PM EST
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