| CentOS | … |
|---|---|
| GNOME Shell as the default desktop environment in CentOS 8.5 | … |
| Developer | The CentOS Project (affiliated with Red Hat) |
| OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
| Working state | Discontinued |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | 14 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 target | Servers, desktop computers, workstations, supercomputers |
| Update method | DNF |
| Package manager | RPM |
| Supported platforms | x86-64, ARM64, ppc64le4 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux kernel) |
| Default user interface | GNOME Shell, Bash5 |
| License | GNU GPL and other licenses |
| Succeeded by | CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux |
| Official website | centos.org |
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Footnotes
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John Newbigin (14 May 2004). “CentOS-2 Final finally released”. centos.org. Retrieved 1 June 2008. ↩
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CentOS-announce - Announcing the latest release of CentOS Linux 8 (2111) ↩
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CentOS-announce - Release for CentOS Linux 7 (2009) on the x86_64 Architecture ↩
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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 ↩
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Kibet, John (25 September 2019). “CentOS 8 rolls out - Here are CentOS 8 New features”. Computing for Geeks. Retrieved 6 October 2019. ↩