This shift means that the life cycle of the latest CentOS distribution, released last year, will end on December 31, Nevertheless, CentOS Linux 7 distribution will continue, as scheduled, until The timeline is summarized as follows:. It can be downloaded, used, studied, modified and redistributed for free with the exception of CentOS trademarks owned by Red Hat.
This platform aims to take advantage of open-source innovation for shaping upcoming stable RHEL releases. This new enterprise-ready distribution will be a real replacement for CentOS. But its release date is yet to be determined. CentOS is a community-supported distribution built from the source code of the Linux commercial distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As Red Hat uses open source software published under a GPL for building their product, they must make their source code available to the public.
As a result, CentOS is functionally compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, because the main changes consist in removing vendor branding and artwork. The CentOS project creates binary packages from the publicly available source packages provided by Red Hat , so that anyone can use them for free.
Since , Red Hat has sponsored the CentOS project in order to help establish a proper platform for the open source developers that integrate technologies using CentOS. So, in that same year, developers from Red Hat and CentOs came together in the Governing Board , which is now in charge of managing the distribution and the different working teams involved. Thus, if the latest minor version of CentOS Linux 7 is version 7. If you are using an older minor version than the latest in a given branch, then you are missing security and bugfix updates.
Since minor versions of CentOS are point in time releases of a major branch, starting with CentOS Linux 7, we are now using a date code in our minor versions. This way anyone can know, from the release, when it happened. Linux MSC. Linux SCI. Rate this project. CentOS 4. Major new features include the Linux 2. These improvements along with many more are detailed in the release notes available online. Download : CentOS CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users which started in and has been sponsored by Red Hat since DistroWatch Gallery.
Distribution Release: CentOS 8. The new version is labelled as CentOS 8. Updates released since the upstream release are all posted, across all architectures. We strongly recommend every user apply all updates, including the content released today, on your existing CentOS Linux 8 machine by just running 'dnf update'.
Of particular note, this release adds the following new versions of software in optional module streams: Python 3. Distribution Release: CentOS 7. Johnny Hughes has announced the availability of CentOS 7. This is the current release of the legacy branch of distribution which is built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
This release supersedes all previously released content for CentOS Linux 7, and therefore we highly encourage all users to upgrade their machines. Everything we ever release, is always available on the vault service for people still looking for and have a real need for it. The new version, labelled as CentOS 8. As with all CentOS Linux 8 components, this release was built from sources hosted at git. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more.
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