Review: CentOS 5 (Page 1 of 6)
Written by
Steve Lake
Posted on: Jul 25, 2007 at 12:11pm
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CentOS, a derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, was started back in 2002 with its
first beta versions appearing in 2003. The first full version appeared in late 2003 as
CentOS 3.0, which was updated a few months later to 3.1. The version number then changed
to 2.1 to match the version number of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version being used as
the base for the distribution. In 2005 version 4.0 came out followed by 5.0 in early 2007.
CentOS is designed to be a high end server OS that runs on a wide variety of different
architectures, including x86, Intel IA-64 (Itanium 64-bit), x86-64, PowerPC/32, IBM
Mainframe, Alpha, and SPARC. Given all this versatility, and its roots as a server OS,
some may be lead to ask the question, “Does it make a good desktop
distribution?” We’re about to find out.
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