CENTOS

home donate information support wiki downloads contact us search register login this site uses javascript click for info centos overview centos is an enterprise class linux distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent north american enterprise linux vendor centos conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100 binary compatible centos mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork centos is free centos is developed by a small but growing team of core developers in turn the core developers are supported by an active user community including system administrators network administrators enterprise users managers core linux contributors and linux enthusiasts from around the world centos has numerous advantages over some of the other clone projects including an active and growing user community quickly rebuilt tested and qa ed errata packages an extensive mirror network developers who are contactable and responsive multiple free support avenues including irc chat mailing lists forums a dynamic faq commercial support is offered via a number of vendors this site makes use of javascript if your browser doesn t work with javascript we recommend you use firefox centos 5 releases the centos team is pleased to announce the availability of centos 5 5 major changes in centos 5 5 compared to centos 5 4 include openoffice org update to version 3 1 1 samba3x in version 3 3 8 postgresql84 in version 8 4 freeradius2 the latter three aren t installed by default but they can be used to upgrade from the still included older versions of these packages other upgrades include newer version of the wireless drivers suite including newer versions of the ath9k driver and the iwlwifi drivers the gnu debugger gdb valgrind and systemtap also have been updated links distro release announcement documentation centos 5 release notes centos upstream download i386 x86_64 centos 4 releases the centos team is pleased to announce the availability of centos 4 8 major changes in 4 8 include a there is now a preview edition of openoffice org 2 0 4 and b firefox is rebased to firefox 3 0 x these improvements along with many more are detailed in the online release notes here and upstream release notes here these architectures are complete and released as final centos 4 8 i386 centos 4 4 i386 livecd centos 4 8 x86_64 centos 4 7 single servercd i386 centos 4 7 single servercd x86_64 centos 4 7 ia64 centos 4 7 s390 centos 4 7 s390x centos 4 3 for alpha the following architecture are beta releases centos 4 0 for ppc32 centos 4 2beta for sparc single server cd centos 4 offers a single server cd this cd contains a subset of packages used for most server installs on a single cd for installation this cd can be a time saver 1 cd instead of 4 for download available here livecd there is also a centos 4 livecd for i386 this livecd is a fully functional workstation and can be used as a system recovery tool as well see this release announcement for more information available here please read the latest centos 4 documentation for complete details download centos 4 i386 x86_64 isos reviews linux com newsforge linux com centos 3 releases centos 3 9 is the currently released version of centos 3 it includes the following features the native posix thread library gnome 2 2 2 kde 3 1 3 mysql 3 23 58 postgresql 7 3 10 apache 2 0 46 openoffice org 1 1 2 samba 3 impi seamonkey 1 0 x and many others centos 3 currently supports these architectures i386 x86_64 ia64 s390 s390x single server cd centos 3 9 offers a single server cd i386 and x86_64 only this cd contains a subset of packages used for most server installs on a single cd for installation this cd can be a time saver 1 cd instead of 4 for download the latest single server cd is available at the iso link below latest release announcement is here latest centos 3 documentation and release notes are here download centos 3 i386 x86_64 isos centos sponsor the centos project would like to thank the following product or service vendor for being a centos sponsor clicking the graphic opens a new window to the sponsor s site if you would like to help the centos project then details can be found on the donation page sponsors links the centos project would like to thank the following sponsors of the project uk dedicated server hosting if you would like to help the centos project by sponsoring a link then please contact us using the web contact form we want to know we now have 3 new news categories that allow article submissions by our registered users they are centos in the news external news articles about centos projects based on centos projects from other organizations that use centos as their base operating system if you are using centos as the base os for your project or if you find one we don t know about please let us know we use centos centos is an enterprise operating system if you are using centos in an enterprise environment we want to publish your story here you can use the above links to read the current articles in each area if you are a registered centos org user you can submit an article for one of the above categories cluster suite and global file system centos has released the cluster suite and global file system for centos 3 and centos 4 cluster suite 4 cs and global file system 6 1 gfs for centos 4 is available from this directory http mirror centos org centos 4 csgfs see this announcement for more information cluster suite 3 cs and global file system 6 0 gfs for centos 3 is available from this directory http mirror centos org centos 3 csgfs spotlight news university of maiduguri posted by muffycompo in 2007 university of maiduguri decided to look for an alternative solution to their existing mikrotik based hotspot system to tackle issue of repetitive licensing we decided to research open source solution where we tested and found coova chilli to be the best and having more features we were able to come up with a product that was developed in house in the university we are now proud to have our product called quot mpot quot which is even at version as of the time of this writing the base operating system had to centos because we wanted to have the robustness and scalability of redhat enterprise linux which we got from centos linux we are glad to have worked with the centos community and will like to thankeveryone involved on this wonder open source os information university of maiduguri maiduguri borno state nigeria http www unimaid edu ng read more other news rackaid uses centos 2009 8 12 optocomponents gmbh uses centos 5 2009 8 12 sword intech runs centos 2009 8 12 yonatan uses centos for hosting desktop testing 2009 8 12 centos cluster with xen 2009 8 12 centos at austin community college 2009 8 12 compevo communications clustered web hosting dedicated servers success story 2009 8 12 kusu hpc cluster management system for centos 2009 8 11 white horse creative uses centos5 for 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