CentOS Linux 6.8 Officially Released, Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 | Linux Today

CentOS Linux 6.8 Officially Released, Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8

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Marius Nestor
May 26, 2016

Based, of course, on the upstream freely distributed sources of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.8 operating system, CentOS Linux 6.8 arrives today with major changes, among which we can mention the latest Linux 2.6.32 kernel release from upstream with support for storing up to 300TB of data on XFS filesystems.

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Marius Nestor

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