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The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.1. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:

These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.0, Evolution-2.8, Firefox-1.5, Thunderbird-1.5, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.

Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.

Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.

Links:
Distro Release Announcement | LiveCD Release Announcement

Documentation: CentOS 5

Screenshots

Reviews:
Linux.com

Release Notes: CentOS | Upstream

LiveCD:
CentOS has released a LiveCD for i386. It can be downloaded via the normal i386 ISO directory.

Download: i386 | x86_64

The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 4.6. Major changes in 4.6 include a) There is now a Preview Edition of OpenOffice.org-2.0.4 and b) There is now DomU Xen PV Guest support in the new CentOS 4.6 Kernel. These improvements along with many more are detailed in the online release notes here and here

These architectures are complete and released as final:

CentOS 4.6 i386.
CentOS 4.4 i386 LiveCD.
CentOS 4.6 x86_64.
CentOS 4.4 i386 Single ServerCD
CentOS 4.6 IA64
CentOS 4.6 s390
CentOS 4.6 s390x
CentOS 4.3 for Alpha

The following architecture are beta releases:

CentOS 4.0 for ppc32
CentOS-4.2Beta for sparc

Single Server CD
CentOS 4 offers a Single Server CD. This CD contains a subset of packages used for most server installs on a single CD for installation. This CD can be a time saver (1 CD instead of 4 for download). Available here.

LiveCD
There is also a CentOS 4 LiveCD for i386. This LiveCD is a fully functional workstation and can be used as a system recovery tool as well. See this release announcement for more information. Available here.

Please read the latest CentOS 4 Documentation and release notes for complete details.

Download CentOS 4 ISOs

Reviews: Linux.com | NewsForge | Linux.com

CentOS 3.9 is the currently released version of CentOS 3. It includes the following features the Native Posix Thread Library, Gnome 2.2.2, KDE 3.1.3, MySQL 3.23.58, PostgreSQL 7.3.10, Apache 2.0.46, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2, Samba 3, IMPI, SeaMonkey-1.0.x and many others.

CentOS 3 currently supports these architectures:

i386
x86_64
ia64
s390
s390x

Single Server CD
CentOS 3.9 offers a Single Server CD (i386 and x86_64 only) . This CD contains a subset of packages used for most server installs on a single CD for installation. This CD can be a time saver (1 CD instead of 4 for download). The latest Single Server CD is available at the ISO link below.

Latest Release Announcement is here

Latest CentOS 3 Documentation and release notes are here

Download CentOS 3 ISOs

CentOS 2.1 is the currently released version of CentOS 2. It includes the following features Gnome 1.4, KDE 2.2.2, MySQL 3.23.58, PostgreSQL 7.1.3, Apache 1.3.27, Samba 2.2 and many others.

CentOS 2.1 is available for the i386 architecture.

Here is the CentOS-2.1 Release Announcement, and the release notes.

Latest CentOS 2 Documentation is here

Download CentOS-2 ISOs

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If you would like to help the CentOS project by sponsoring a link then please contact us using the web contact form

The CentOS team would like to publicly thank Fish4 and Mr. Simone Sciarrati at Fish4 for the generous hardware donation they have made to the CentOS Project. To promote Linux on the Sparc platform Fish4 have donated five Sun Netra T105 1U servers.

Fish4 is a London, UK based organisation who believe in and support open source. At this time they have large open source deployment within the company and their Data Centers and make every effort to encourage its spread.

The CentOS Project has developed a Geo-IP enabled system for our CentOS-4 yum updates that generates dynamic mirror lists based on two very important items:

1. The connecting location of the client.

2. The current freshness/staleness of the mirrors for that region.

This update system will allow us to read the connecting location of a client, look for fresh mirrors close to that client, and provide a list of ten mirrors for each CentOS repository that is included in the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo. The selection base is currently about 100 mirrors from around the world.

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We now have 3 new News Categories that allow article submissions by our registered users. They are:

CentOS in the News - External News articles about CentOS.

Projects based on CentOS - Projects from other organizations that use CentOS as their base operating system. If you are using CentOS as the base OS for your project or if you find one we don't know about, please let us know.

We use CentOS - CentOS is an enterprise operating system. If you are using CentOS in an enterprise environment, we want to publish your story here.

You can use the above links to read the current articles in each area. If you are a registered CentOS.org user, you can submit an article for one of the above categories.

CentOS.org makes use of a free SSL certificate program available from CAcert. The SSL certificates available from CAcert are built around an Identity Assurance Program that includes a Web Of Trust and Trusted Third Party identity verification processes. Unfortunately politics and finances currently prevent the CAcert Root Certificate from being included with current browsers.

You will need to accept the CACert Root Certificate into your browser when the option is offered. You are not required to use SSL for all pages here, only to login and modify your personal information.

Note: CentOS has included CAcert.org as a Trusted Certificate Authority in both CentOS 3 and CentOS 4. We wish that other FOSS distributions would do the same, so people could easily get and use free SSL Certificates.

CentOS has released the Cluster Suite and Global File System for CentOS-3 and CentOS-4.
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Cluster Suite 4 (CS) and Global File System 6.1 (GFS) for CentOS-4 is available from this directory:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/csgfs/

See this Announcement for more information.
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Cluster Suite 3 (CS) and Global File System 6.0 (GFS) for CentOS-3 is available from this directory:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/csgfs/