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.