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CentOS 5.9 Released

Posted by timothy on from the for-all-your-white-box-needs dept.

kthreadd writes "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 derivative CentOS version 5.9 has been released just 10 days after its upstream provider. According to the release notes a number of changes have been made. New packages available in CentOS 5.9 includes for example OpenJDK 7 and Rsyslog 5. Several drivers have also been updated in the kernel which has been updated to version 2.6.18-348, including support for Microsoft's virtualization environment Hyper-V." CentOS has been plugging away now for nearly 10 years.

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  1. Centos is awesome! by Openstandards.net · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm proud to say that we host all of our servers on Centos! It is the best free server OS out there, IMHO.

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    Open Standards Portal
  2. Any progress on the file system front? by JDG1980 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IMO, one of the drawbacks of Linux (including CentOS) as a server OS compared to FreeBSD is the lack of a good file system. FreeBSD (and Solaris) have ZFS which has robust checksum and parity features, while Linux has nothing of the kind, at least not yet. Has any progress been made on this front?