Wow, CentOS 6.2 Is Now Available: While the CentOS crew was very late at releasing CentOS 6.0 as their community spin of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, and also late at releasing CentOS 6.1 compared to upstream RHEL 6.1 and the other community EL derivatives, they have improved their turnaround time for the 6.2 release.

CentOS vs. Oracle vs. Scientific Linux 6.1 Performance: While CentOS, Scientific Linux, and Oracle Linux Server are all derived from the same upstream source (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), how does the system performance compare between these RHEL derivatives? Here are some benchmarks of each of the 6.1 releases for Oracle Server, CentOS, and Scientific Linux, as they all do not perform the same.

CentOS 6.1 Finally Released, Still Playing Catch-Up: CentOS 6.0 was released this past summer over 240 days after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, for which the Linux operating system is based. Released yesterday evening was CentOS 6.1, which this time is only belated by 204 days compared to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1...

At Long Last, CentOS 6.0 ISOs Finally Surface: Since the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, 242 days have passed. Additionally, 129 days have passed since the release of Scientific Linux 6.0, which is one of the popular community rebuilds of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 source packages. Only today, however, is CentOS 6.0 ISOs beginning to surface...

Scientific Linux Marches On While CentOS 6 Is Still M.I.A.: Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 in November after it was available as beta for months prior. It took a few months for the Scientific Linux developers to release Scientific Linux 6.0, as their community rebuild of the RHEL6.0 packages, and shortly thereafter Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 was released.

CentOS 5.6 Released; CentOS 6.0 Still M.I.A.: In mid-January was when Red Hat made the RHEL 5.6 GA release, but now three months later the CentOS 5.6 community rebuild of RHEL 5.6 is finally available. CentOS 6.0 though is still missing in action...

CentOS 5.5 Finally Released: A month and a half has passed since the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, but CentOS 5.5 has finally made it out into the world as the community equivalent to the RHEL5.5 packages. CentOS 5.5 is available for i386 and x86_64 systems and there continues to be LiveCDs of it for those interested...

CentOS 5.4 vs. OpenSuSE 11.2 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks: With the release of CentOS 5.4 last month to bring this community enterprise operating system on par with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, we decided it was a good time to see how the server / workstation performance between this new CentOS release compares to that of Ubuntu 9.10, which was released last week, and also how it performs up against the release candidate of OpenSuSE 11.2.

Extra Packages For RHEL, CentOS: We've long had Fedora Extras, but yesterday Extras Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) officially opened for yum-ing. This is an Extras RPM package repository for enterprise distributions based upon Fedora, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS. EPEL is community maintained by Fedora Project members and currently there are around 1,000 packages.

CentOS LiveCD 5.0: CentOS, the popular community Linux distribution based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has been at version 5.0 since April of this year, but joining the CentOS 5.0 fleet today is the LiveCD. The CentOS 5.0 LiveCD is based upon CentOS 5.0 i386 and can work out to be a modest Linux workstation or recovery distribution.

CentOS 4.5 Released: CentOS 5.0 was released last month but for those not immediately upgrading, CentOS 4.5 is now available as an update in the CentOS 4.x branch. This release corresponds with the fifth update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Some of the CentOS 4.5 features include a Xen virtualized kernel and a technology preview of OpenOffice.org 2.0.

CentOS 5.0 Released: If Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is too expensive for your blood, CentOS 5 is now available. CentOS 5 is immediately available for i386 and x86_64 though PowerPC, IA64, and SPARC support is planned for the future. The release announcement is available here. One of the changes for CentOS 5.0 is being completely rebuilt using a newer build system.

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