Your guide to CentOS

modern CentOS logo Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercial Linux distribution based on free and open source code. Red Hat is bound by the licensing terms of this source code to make it freely available, and CentOS uses Red Hats code to create a free Linux distribution that is compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Each version of CentOS is supported for 7 years through security updates. A new version of CentOS is released roughly every two years, and are available for both i386 and x86_64 platforms.

CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System.

IP Address Configuration in CentOS - Commandline and Graphical Modes

Trying out CentOS? By default, any Linux distribution offers a multitude of ways to change your networking and IP addressing. In CentOS, you can choose to do so using 3 different methods. In this article...

Using CentOS 5 with VMware

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Creating and Using Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS Linux Kickstart Files

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IP Address Configuration in CentOS - Commandline and Graphical Modes

Trying out CentOS? By default, any Linux distribution offers a multitude of ways to change your networking and IP addressing. In CentOS, you can choose to do so using 3 different...

Using CentOS 5 with VMware

CentOS 5 is a popular Linux server distro. Before installing it on your server, why not test and configure it in VMware?...