Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
This article is about the discontinued operating system. For the similarly-named but more upstream-focused distribution, see CentOS Stream. For the Polish-Jewish children's-aid society, see CENTOS (charity).
CentOS
GNOME Shell as the default desktop environment in CentOS 8.3
Developer
The CentOS Project (affiliated with Red Hat)
OS family
Linux (Unix-like)
Working state
Discontinued
Source model
Open source
Initial release
19 March 2004; 20 years ago (2004-03-19)[1]
Final release
8.5.2111[2] (16 November 2021; 2 years ago (2021-11-16)) [±]
7.9-2009[3] (12 November 2020; 3 years ago (2020-11-12)) [±]
CentOS (/ˈsɛntɒs/, from Community Enterprise Operating System; also known as CentOS Linux)[5][6] is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).[7][8] In January 2014, CentOS announced the official joining with Red Hat while staying independent from RHEL,[9] under a new CentOS governing board.[10][11]
The first CentOS release in May 2004, numbered as CentOS version 2, was forked from RHEL version 2.1AS.[1] Since version 8, CentOS officially supports the x86-64, ARM64, and POWER8 architectures, and releases up to version 6 also supported the IA-32 architecture. As of December 2015[update], AltArch releases of CentOS 7 are available for the IA-32 architecture, Power ISA, and for the ARMv7hl and AArch64 variants of the ARM architecture.[12][13] CentOS 8 was released on 24 September 2019.[14]
In December 2020, Red Hat unilaterally terminated CentOS development[15][16][17][18] in favor of CentOS Stream, a distribution positioned upstream of RHEL.[19] In March 2021, CloudLinux (makers of CloudLinux OS) released a RHEL derivative called AlmaLinux.[20] Later in May 2021, one of the CentOS founders (Gregory Kurtzer) created the competing Rocky Linux project as a successor to the original mission of CentOS.[21]
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^"CentOS Forums - Index page". centos.org. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
^"Frequently Asked Questions about CentOS in general: 1. What is CentOS Linux?". centos.org. 12 October 2014. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
^"Red hat + CentOS". Red Hat. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
^Karanbir Singh (7 January 2014). "CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat". centos.org. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
^"CentOS Governance". centos.org. 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
^Karanbir Singh (9 December 2014). "Karanbir Singh: CentOS Linux: A Continuously integrating platform". Archived from the original on 7 November 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2016 – via YouTube.
^Singh, Karanbir (19 December 2015). "[CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS AltArch 7 (1511)". Retrieved 24 December 2015.
^Perrin, Jim (4 August 2015). "[CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS 7 on AArch64". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
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^"The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'". The Register. 26 January 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
^"CentOS Linux is dead—and Red Hat says Stream is "not a replacement"". 10 December 2020.
^"Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list". 11 December 2020.
^"Why Red Hat killed CentOS—a CentOS board member speaks". 26 January 2021.
^Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. "CentOS Linux 8 is about to die. What do you do next?". ZDNet. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
^Vinogradov, Alexander. "Announcing Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork by CloudLinux". cloudlinux.com. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
^Anderson, Tim (10 December 2020). "Rocky Linux is go: CentOS founder's new project aims to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux". The Register. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
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