A First Look At CentOS 5

“CentOS 5 was released a few weeks ago to little or no fanfare
on the Internet. I find this surprising, since CentOS is a good,
stable operating system traditionally. But maybe individuals have
been waiting to make a decision on the newest version from CentOS.
If you’re one of those people, then wait no more!

“CentOS (or the Community ENTerprise Operating System) is an
enterprise class GNU/Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. The difference is that all proprietary drivers, programs and
references to Red Hat have been removed. In fact, they do not even
mention Red Hat on their web site. Red Hat is called the ‘upstream
vendor…'”

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