CentOS

ACTIVE TECHNOLOGY

• Status: Active
• Category: Operating System
• Platform: Unix
• Maturity: High
• Licensing: Open

CentOS is an open source fee-free version of Linux targetted at the server. Fedora Project is focused on the desktop.

CentOS is a free operating system distribution based upon the Linux kernel. It is derived entirely from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. CentOS exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream source, Red Hat.[2] CentOS stands for Community Enterprise Operating System. CentOS is the most popular Linux distribution for web servers with almost 30% of all Linux web servers using it.

Usage

• CentOS Features
• See CentOS Usage

Links

• http://centos.org/

Related Technologies

• Redhat
• Ubuntu
• Fedora
• Debian

Versus

• CentOS vs RHEL
• CentOS vs Fedora
• Fedora vs RHEL