CentOS 5.2

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 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 also offered via a number of vendors.

CentOS 5.2 includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. And the option to further enable external repositories at install time is now available in the installer.

CentOS 5.2 features:

• Linux kernel 2.6.18
• Automatic hardware detection (udev 095)
• Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 1.0.14rc4
• Window System: Xorg 7.1
• Desktops: GNOME 2.16 and Nautilus 2.16.2, KDE 3.5.4
• Office Applications: Emacs 21.4, OpenOffice.org 2.3.0, Vim 7.0, The GIMP 2.2.13
• Web Browser: Firefox 3.0beta5
• Mail/IM: Evolution 2.12.3, Pidgin 2.3.1, Postfix 2.3.3, Sendmail 8.13.8, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
• CD/DVD Burning: K3b 0.12.17
• Server/Client: MySQL 5.0.45, BIND 9.3.4-P1, DB 4.3.29, DHCP 3.0.5, OpenSSH 4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b, PostgreSQL 8.1.11
• Development: GCC 4.1.2, glibc 2.5, PERL 5.8.8, PHP 5.1.6, Python 2.4.3, Qt-X11 3.3.6, Gtk+ 2.10.4
• Printing: CUPS 1.2.4, Samba 3.0.28
• Many more updates!