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CentOS 5 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-and-improved dept.

jonesy16 writes "Only a few weeks behind the release of Red Hat Enterprise 5, CentOS announced today the immediate release of version 5 of the free derivative of RHEL 5. Torrents are available for both i386 and x86_64. New features include compiz and AIGLX support as well as better virtualization and thin-client support. Package updates include Apache-2.2, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, and KDE-3.5."

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  1. Re:Does anyone even use this OS? by phase_9 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know you're trolling but in my last job we had CentOS running on 30+ servers (the rest were Win2k3 servers). I find CentOS to be stable, easy to maintain and navigate around, and most importantly reliable with regular and prompt updates.

  2. Re:Does anyone even use this OS? by dn15 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find CentOS to be stable, easy to maintain and navigate around, and most importantly reliable with regular and prompt updates.
    Absolutely. I use Debian on servers (it's what I know and am comfortable with) but I would definitely consider CentOS and recommend it to others who are less *NIX-savvy.