CentOS 5.3 – Serious Linux for serious people

“It’s a distro that you will most likely run without any GUI,
reboot once every other year or so, if that, and upgrade only when
you really must, since the inclusion of even simplest binaries
could be dreadfully risky for your setup.

“CentOS is a distribution that deals in long-term stability and
security. Branched off as a free version of the vastly popular
RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS is everything the most
important server distribution is, except the expensive, official
support from the vendor. Speaking of support, CentOS 5.x versions,
which are all based on RHEL5.x versions, are going to be supported
until 2014, a total of seven years since the major release launch
in 2007.

“Essentially, CentOS will be your virtualization server, your
mail server, your DNS, FTP, LDAP, and who knows what else. It will
probably never play any music or videos or interface with Windows
machines. No fancy Flash, camera support or anything of that kind.
Essentially, that is. Until someone like me decides to break the
rules.”

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