History ĬentOS originated as a build of CAOS Linux, an RPM-based Linux distribution started by Gregory Kurtzer in 2002. ĬentOS Linux was discontinued at the end of 2021 in favor of CentOS Stream, a distribution positioned upstream of RHEL. In March 2021, Cloud Linux (makers of CloudLinux OS) released a new RHEL derivative called AlmaLinux. In response, CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer created the Rocky Linux project as a successor to the original mission of CentOS. In December 2020, Red Hat unilaterally terminated CentOS development. CentOS 8 was released on 24 September 2019. As of December 2015, AltArch releases of CentOS 7 are available for the IA-32 architecture, Power ISA, and for the ARMv7hl and AArch64 variants of the ARM architecture. Since version 8, CentOS officially supports the x86-64, ARM64, and POWER8 architectures, and releases up to version 6 also supported the IA-32 architecture.

The first CentOS release in May 2004, numbered as CentOS version 2, was forked from RHEL version 2.1AS. In January 2014, CentOS announced the official joining with Red Hat while staying independent from RHEL, under a new CentOS governing board. rpm (binaries format)ĬentOS ( / ˈ s ɛ n t ɒ s/, from Community Enterprise Operating System also known as CentOS Linux) is a Linux distribution that provides a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Servers, desktop computers, workstations, supercomputersĭnf (command line) PackageKit (graphical). CentOS Stream 9 in the Workstation configuration, showing its desktop environment, GNOME 40.

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