CentOS

CentOS is a community-supported, free and open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution. CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available only through a paid subscription service that provides access to software updates and varying levels of... more

Software Genre:

Computers

Release Date:

  • Apr 12, 2007

Version Number:

  • 5.0

Latest Release Date:

  • Jun 24, 2008
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