CentOS…
GNOME Shell as the default desktop environment in CentOS 8.5…
DeveloperThe CentOS Project
(affiliated with Red Hat)
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelOpen source
Initial release14 May 20041
Final release• 8.5.2111 2 (16 November 2021 (2021-11-16)) [±]
• 7.9-2009 3 (12 November 2020 (2020-11-12)) [±]
Marketing targetServers, desktop computers, workstations, supercomputers
Update methodDNF
Package managerRPM
Supported platformsx86-64, ARM64, ppc64le4
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux kernel)
Default
user interface
GNOME Shell, Bash5
LicenseGNU GPL and other licenses
Succeeded byCentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux
Official websitecentos.org

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Footnotes

  1. John Newbigin (14 May 2004). “CentOS-2 Final finally released”. centos.org. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ↩

  2. CentOS-announce - Announcing the latest release of CentOS Linux 8 (2111) ↩

  3. CentOS-announce - Release for CentOS Linux 7 (2009) on the x86_64 Architecture ↩

  4. CentOS versions older than 7.0-1406 had official support for i686 with Physical Address Extension (PAE), additional architectures were supported in the versions older than 4.7, and currently are provided by AltArch Special Interest Group ↩

  5. Kibet, John (25 September 2019). “CentOS 8 rolls out - Here are CentOS 8 New features”. Computing for Geeks. Retrieved 6 October 2019. ↩