CentOS
Sign in to saveCentOS (, from Community Enterprise Operating System; also known as CentOS Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In January 2014, CentOS announced the official joining with Red Hat while staying independent from RHEL, under a new CentOS governing board.
Key facts
- OS.name
- CentOS
- OS.logo
- Centos-logo-light.svg
- OS.logo size
- 300px
- OS.screenshot
- File:CentOS 8.5 screenshot.png
- OS.caption
- GNOME Shell as the default desktop environment in CentOS 8.5
- OS.developer
- The CentOS Project(affiliated with Red Hat)
- OS.family
- Linux (Unix-like)
- OS.working state
- Discontinued
- OS.source model
- Open source
- OS.discontinued
- Yes
- OS.marketing target
- Servers, desktop computers, workstations, supercomputers
- OS.update model
- DNF
- OS.package manager
- RPM
- OS.supported platforms
- x86-64, ARM64, and ppc64le
- OS.kernel type
- Monolithic (Linux kernel)
- OS.succeeded by
- CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux
- OS.ui
- Bash, GNOME Shell
- OS.license
- GNU GPL and other licenses
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Article
20 sectionsContents
- History
- Design
- Versioning and releases
- CentOS releases
- End-of-support schedule
- Older version information
- CentOS version 7
- Latest version information
- CentOS version 8
- {{Anchor|ALTARCH}}AltArch releases
- {{Anchor|SCL}}Add-ons releases
- Releases without upstream equivalents
- {{Anchor|SIGS}}Special interest groups
- Architectures
- {{Anchor|REPOS}}Repositories
- {{Anchor|Stream}}CentOS Stream
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
CentOS (, from Community Enterprise Operating System; also known as CentOS Linux) is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In January 2014, CentOS announced the official joining with Red Hat while staying independent from RHEL, under a new CentOS governing board.
The first CentOS release in May 2004, numbered as CentOS version 2, was forked from RHEL version 2.1AS. Since version 8, CentOS officially supports the x86-64, ARM64, and POWER8 architectures, and releases up to version 6 also supported the IA-32 architecture. , AltArch releases of CentOS 7 are available for the IA-32 architecture, Power ISA, and for the ARMv7hl and AArch64 variants of the ARM architecture. CentOS 8 was released on 24 September 2019.