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CentOS 5.7 Is Now Available for Download

It is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 OS

Sep 14, 2011 17:01 GMT  ·  By
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Karanbir Singh proudly announced last evening, September 13th, the immediate availability for download of the CentOS 5.7 Linux operating system.

CentOS 5.7 is now available (see download link at the end of the article) for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and it is based on the upstream release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7. It contains lots of updates, bugfixes and new features.

CentOS 5.7 includes packages from all RHEL variants, including Client and Server. The upstream software repositories have been combined into a single one for this release, helping end users to work easy with it.

Existing CentOS 5.x users can upgrade to the new CentOS 5.7 release via YUM, running the "yum update" command in root terminal window.

"If you are running CentOS-5.6 and have the CR repo enabled, a simple 'yum update' will still move your machine to 5.7. But since the CR repo already contained all the 5.7 updates, there will only be a handful of rpms that need to be installed for the 5.6 to 5.7 upgrade."

"If you are not running the CR repo, we highly encourage everyone to install and run this repository on their machines. More details on the CR repo can be found online at http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR" - said Karanbir Singh in the official announcement.

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The CentOS 5.7 Linux distribution was completely rebuilt using a brand-new build system and library checks, in order to confirm RHEL binary compatibility.

The following new packages were included in the CentOS 5.7 release, compared to the CentOS 5.6 version: cmake, jline, libcxgb4, libcxgb4, man-pages-overrides, openldap24-libs(devel), openscap(devel/perl/python), perl-NetAddr-IP, python-ethtool, python-rhsm, python-simplejson, python-suds, rhino, rhino-javadoc, sssd-tools, subscription-manager, subscription-manager-firstboot, subscription-manager-gnome, tcsh617, virt-what.

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CentOS is a community enterprise operating system, based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources and available for the following architectures: Intel 32-bit, Intel IA-64 (Itanium 64-bit), 64-bit (AMD's AMD64 and Intel's Intel 64). Additionally, CentOS is a 100% free Linux distribution fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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