Centos linux
Typical CentOS users are organisations and individuals that do not need strong commercial support in order to achieve successful operation. CentOS is 100% compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements. CentOS is for people who need an enterprise class operating system stability without the cost of certification and support.
CentOS is a freely-available Linux distribution that is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This rebuild project strives to be 100% binary compatible with the upstreamproduct and, within its mainline and updates, not to vary from thatgoal. Additional software archives hold later versions of suchpackages, along with other Free and Open Source Software RPM-based packages. CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System.
CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sourcesfreely provided to the public by a prominent North American EnterpriseLinux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendorsredistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOSmainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding andartwork.) CentOS is free. CentOS is now accepting donations viaPayPal, please click the button for more information.
CentOS is developed by a small but growing team of core developers. In turn the core developers are supported by an active user community including system administrators, network administrators, enterprise users, managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around the world.
A severe vulnerability was found in the random number generator (RNG) of the Debian OpenSSL package, starting with version 0.9.8c-1 (and similar packages in derived distributions such as Ubuntu). While this bug is not present in the OpenSSL packages provided by CentOS, it may still affect CentOS users.
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