"Last week, two years since its last major release, the CentOS project released version 5 of its enterprise-focused Linux distribution. I downloaded it and put it to the test, and found that CentOS 5 has maintained its tradition of robustness and reliability while adding new features like virtualization.
The latest CentOS (Community ENTerprise Operating System) distribution is built from the freely available (under the GPL and similar licenses) sources for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The initial platforms supported are x86 (i586 and i686) and x86_64 (AMD64 and Intel EMT64) with planned support for IA64 and others soon.
The key advantages of CentOS over other server-type distributions, apart from its free nature (as in both speech and beer), is its rock-solid reliability and the long lifecycle of the product. The CentOS project expects to supply maintenance updates for Centos 3 until 2010 and for CentOS 4 until 2012. Projecting this forward, maintenance for CentOS 5 should be active until at least 2014."
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