The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS-3.8 in the following architectures:
i386 - This distribution supports AMD (K6, K7, Thunderbird, Athlon, Athlon XP, Sempron), Pentium (Classic, Pro, II, III, 4, Celeron, M, Xeon), VIA (C3, Eden, Luke, C7) processors.
x86_64 - This distribution supports AMD (Athlon 64, Opteron) and Intel Pentium (Xeon EM64T) processors.
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Current CentOS 3 users may upgrade by using up2date or yum and the normal upgrade process using the following commands:
yum upgrade
or
up2date -u
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The CentOS specific release notes for this upgrade are available here:
i386: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/docs/release-notes/as-x86/RELEASE-NOTES-U8-x86-en.html
x86_64: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/docs/release-notes/as-amd64/RELEASE-NOTES-U8-x86_64-en.html
Documentation for CentOS 3 (including upstream release notes) is available here:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/docs/
You may download the installation CD or DVD ISOs via bittorrent from this link:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.8/isos/
CD ISOs may also be downloaded via publicly available external mirrors:
http://www.centos.org/mirrors/
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Please see the release notes above for descriptions of the major changes in this version of CentOS.
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Thanks,
The CentOS Development Team
