CentOS 5.7 Final

CentOS 5.7 Final is a operating system. The CentOS 5.7 Final has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.

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CentOS 6.4 Gets Released: Less than one month after Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 was released, the CentOS offshoot is now out with its 6.4 release...

Rocks Cluster 6.1 Adds In ZFS File-System Support: Rocks, the RHEL/CentOS-derived operating system focused upon supporting Linux on real and virtual clusters, has delivered on its 6.1 release...

CentOS 6.3 Spin Released Of RHEL 6.3: With their worst delays hopefully an issue of the past, CentOS 6.3 has been released today as the community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3...

Mageia 2 On Approach, Rocks 6.0 Released: In some more non-Ubuntu news this week, the release candidate for Mageia 2 is now available. Rocks 5.5 and Rocks 6.0 was also released...

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 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.

Final Linux Benchmarks Of Project Dirndl: To much dismay, the major open-source announcement we have been waiting for, did not happen this week. Yes, this is the major open-source announcement that we have codenamed Dirndl. It is really that deserving of such a fitting codename. As our early tests have shown, it can dramatically speed-up the system's performance in computationally intensive workloads.

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 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.