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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 offered via a number of vendors.
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