CentOS
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Default GNOME desktop in CentOS 7
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| Developer | The CentOS Project (affiliated with Red Hat) |
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| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 14 May 2004 |
| Latest release |
7.3-1611 (12 December 2016) |
| Marketing target | Free computing (desktops, mainframes, servers and workstations) |
| Update method | Yum (PackageKit) |
| Package manager | RPM Package Manager |
| Platforms | x86-64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux kernel) |
| Default user interface | Command-line, GNOME and KDE Plasma Desktop (user-selectable) |
| License | Free software (GPL and other licenses) |
| Official website | www |
7.3-1611 (12 December 2016)
6.8 (25 May 2016)
CentOS (/sɛnt.ɑːs/, from Community Enterprise Operating System) is a Linux distribution that attempts to provide a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In January 2014, CentOS announced the official joining with Red Hat while staying independent from RHEL, under a new CentOS governing board.
The first CentOS release in May 2004, numbered as CentOS version 2, was forked from RHEL version 2.1AS. Since the release of version 7.0, CentOS officially supports only the x86-64 architecture, while versions older than 7.0-1406 also support IA-32 with Physical Address Extension (PAE). As of December 2015[update], AltArch releases of CentOS 7 are available for the IA-32 architecture, Power architecture, and for the ARMv7hl and AArch64 variants of the ARM architecture.
Prior to becoming known under its current name, CentOS originated as a build artifact of cAos Linux. At the time, some of the cAos contributors were merely interested in this build artifact for their own use, citing difficulties in collaborating with other noteworthy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clones of the time.
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