CentOS-4 is featured in the April 2006 edition of Linux Magazine (Issue 65).

This edition contains a review of CentOS and an exclusive CentOS-4.2 DVD with both the i386 and x86_64 distros included.

You can read parts of the April 2006 edition on-line or order Issue 65 and get the DVD delivered to your home.

The CentOS Project has developed a Geo-IP enabled system for our CentOS-4 yum updates that generates dynamic mirror lists based on two very important items:

1. The connecting location of the client.

2. The current freshness/staleness of the mirrors for that region.

This update system will allow us to read the connecting location of a client, look for fresh mirrors close to that client, and provide a list of ten mirrors for each CentOS repository that is included in the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo. The selection base is currently about 100 mirrors from around the world.

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The CentOS team is pleased to announce availability of CentOS 4.3. Major features include the Linux 2.6 Kernel, SELinux, udev replacing the /dev system, Xorg, MySQL4, CyrusIMAPD, Gnome 2.8 and KDE 3.3. These improvements along with many more are detailed in the release notes available online (http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html)

These 6 architectures are complete and released as final:

CentOS 4.3 x86_64.
CentOS 4.3 i386.
CentOS 4.3 IA64.
CentOS 4.2 s390
CentOS 4.2 s390x
CentOS 4.2 for Alpha

The following architecture are beta releases:

CentOS 4.0 for ppc32
CentOS-4.2Beta for sparc


Latest CentOS 4 Documentation and release notes are here.

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CentOS 3.7 is the currently released version of CentOS 3. It includes the following features the Native Posix Thread Library, Gnome 2.2.2, KDE 3.1.3, MySQL 3.23.58, PostgreSQL 7.3.10, Apache 2.0.46, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2, Samba 3 and many others. IMPI is added with CentOS 3.7 release.

CentOS 3 currently supports these architectures:

i386
x86_64
ia64
s390
s390x

Latest Release Announcement is here

Latest CentOS 3 Documentation and release notes are here

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CentOS 2.1 is the currently released version of CentOS 2. It includes the following features Gnome 1.4, KDE 2.2.2, MySQL 3.23.58, PostgreSQL 7.1.3, Apache 1.3.27, Samba 2.2 and many others.

CentOS 2.1 is available for the i386 architecture.

Here is the CentOS-2.1 Release Announcement, and the release notes.

Latest CentOS 2 Documentation is here

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We now have 3 new News Categories that allow article submissions by our registered users. They are:

CentOS in the News - External News articles about CentOS.

Projects based on CentOS - Projects from other organizations that use CentOS as their base operating system. If you are using CentOS as the base OS for your project or if you find one we don't know about, please let us know.

We use CentOS - CentOS is an enterprise operating system. If you are using CentOS in an enterprise environment, we want to publish your story here.

You can use the above links to read the current articles in each area. If you are a registered CentOS.org user, you can submit an article for one of the above categories.

The CentOS team would like to publicly thank Sun Microsystems Inc., the OpenSolaris™ Project and the OpenSolaris™ BrandZ Community for the generous hardware donation they have made to the CentOS Project.

The CentOS Project has received three Sun Fire V20z Servers from Sun Microsystems. Each 1u machine has dual Opteron 250 processors, 2 Gb RAM, a DVD-ROM/Floppy combo device, a 73Gb U320 SCSI drive, and dual onboard Broadcom BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet ports. We have been working with Jerri-Ann Meyer of the OpenSolaris™ BrandZ Community in making this very welcome donation happen (there were some issues getting a couple of the machines through customs in Great Britain).

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CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor.  CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.)  CentOS is free. CentOS is now accepting donations via PayPal, please click the button for more information.

CentOS is developed by a small but growing team of core developers.  In turn the core developers are supported by an active user community including system administrators, network administrators, enterprise users, managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around the world.

CentOS has numerous advantages over some of the other clone projects including:  an active and growing user community, quickly rebuilt, tested, and QA'ed errata packages, an extensive mirror network, developers who are contactable and responsive, multiple free support avenues including IRC Chat, Mailing Lists, Forums, a dynamic FAQ.  Commercial support is offered via a number of vendors.

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CentOS.org makes use of a free SSL certificate program available from CAcert. The SSL certificates available from CAcert are built around an Identity Assurance Program that includes a Web Of Trust and Trusted Third Party identity verification processes. Unfortunately politics and finances currently prevent the CAcert Root Certificate from being included with current browsers.

You will need to accept the CACert Root Certificate into your browser when the option is offered. You are not required to use SSL for all pages here, only to login and modify your personal information.

Note: CentOS has included CAcert.org as a Trusted Certificate Authority in both CentOS 3 and CentOS 4. We wish that other FOSS distributions would do the same, so people could easily get and use free SSL Certificates.

CentOS has released the Cluster Suite and Global File System for CentOS-3 and CentOS-4.
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Cluster Suite 4 (CS) and Global File System 6.1 (GFS) for CentOS-4 is available from this directory:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/csgfs/

See this Announcement for more information.
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Cluster Suite 3 (CS) and Global File System 6.0 (GFS) for CentOS-3 is available from this directory:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/csgfs/

When fully developed this section will contain the most recent errata packages released by CentOS.



In the meantime, the best way to get errata information is to join the CentOS Announce Mailing List. Once you join the list, you can Login and use the Topics Filter option to only get announcements for the versions and architectures of CentOS you are interested in.