Thursday, April 2, 2009

CentOS released version 5.3

CentOS is basically RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with the name & logo of RedHat removed from the source code. Free community edition without the option to have commercial support.

The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.3. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:

These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.3, Evolution-2.12, Firefox-3.0, Thunderbird-2.0, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.

Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.

Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.

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