CentOSis an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freelyprovided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linuxvendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistributionpolicy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changespackages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.)
CentOS isdeveloped by a small but growing team of core developers. In turn thecore developers are supported by an active user community includingsystem administrators, network administrators, enterprise users,managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around theworld.

CentOS has numerous advantages over some of the otherclone projects including: an active and growing user community, quicklyrebuilt, tested, and QAed errata packages, an extensive mirror network,developers who are contactable and responsive, multiple free supportavenues including IRC Chat, Mailing Lists, Forums, a dynamic FAQ.Commercial support is offered via a number of vendors.

CentOS 5 Releases

TheCentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.5.Major changes in CentOS 5.5 compared to CentOS 5.4 include:

OpenOffice.org Update to version 3.1.1
Samba3x in version 3.3.8
PostgreSQL84 in version 8.4
Freeradius2

Thelatter three arent installed by default, but they can be used toupgrade from the still included older versions of these packages.

Otherupgrades include newer version of the wireless drivers suite, includingnewer versions of the ath9k driver and the iwlwifi drivers. The GNUDebugger gdb, Valgrind and SystemTap also have been updated.