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2007-03-13 Development Release: CentOS 5 Beta
Johnny Hughes has announced the availability of the first beta release of CentOS 5, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2: "The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 5 (Beta) for i386 and x86_64. This is a beta frozen release. Which implies there are known security issues with packages in this release, and there will be no updates provided in order to resolve those issues. This release is not meant to be used in production and there are no upgrade paths guaranteed from this release. As a user, you should consider this beta release as unsuitable for deployment but usable in a test environment to look at new technologies and changes in the distribution since CentOS 4." Read the full release announcement and release notes for more information. Interested beta testers can download the DVD media via BitTorrent: CentOS-4.92-i386-bin-DVD (3.34GB), CentOS-4.92-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso (3.88GB).
2006-08-30 Distribution Release: CentOS 4.4
Johnny Hughes has announced the availability of a fourth update to CentOS 4 series, a Linux distribution built from source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: "The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 4.4 for i386 and x86_64. This release corresponds to the upstream vendor U4 release together with updates through August 26th, 2006. The Live CD edition (1 CD-ROM) is available for i386. Major changes for this version are: Mozilla has been replaced by SeaMonkey, Ethereal has been replaced by Wireshark. Firefox and Thunderbird have moved to 1.5.x versions, OpenOffice.org has moved from to the 1.1.5 version." For more information please see the release announcement and release notes. The CD/DVD and live CD images are available from the project’s download server and mirror sites.
2006-08-25 Distribution Release: CentOS 3.8
Johnny Hughes has announced the release of the 8th update to the legacy CentOS 3 series, available for both i386 and x86_64 architectures: "The CentOS development team is please to announce the release of CentOS 3.8 for i386 and x86_64. CentOS 3.8 is available on all mirrors and via BitTorrent. This release corresponds to the upstream vendor U8 release together with updates through August 11th (depending on architecture). The serverCD edition (1 CD) is available for i386 and x86_64. The work for the other architectures is still in progress." Here is the complete release announcement. The complete CD image sets, DVD torrent files, and single-CD server editions are available from these download mirrors.
2006-05-30 Distribution Release: CentOS 4.3 Server CD
Karanbir Singh has announced the release of CentOS 4.3 Server CD, the project’s single-CD variant designed for server use: "The single CD server install for CentOS 4.3 / i386 has now been released and is available from all active mirrors. Notes: this installer will only work with i686 based CPUs; the included packages are a subset of all packages available in the CentOS distribution, however yum has been pre-configured to use the entire repository; in order to ensure that drivers and other third party apps maintain compatibility, the package set used on the Server CD is from CentOS 4.3, you are strongly encouraged to run a ’yum update’ immediately after installation." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download: CentOS-4.3.ServerCD-i386.iso (563MB, MD5).
2006-05-13 Distribution Release: CentOS 4.3 Live CD
Johnny Hughes has announced the release of the first ever CentOS live CD: "The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of the first CentOS 4 i386 Live CD. This CD is based on our CentOSPlus kernel and the CentOS 4.3 distribution. It can be used a workstation, with the following software: OpenOffice.org 1.1.2, Evolution 2.0.2, Firefox 1.5.0.2, GIMP 2.0.5; built in support for the NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers. It is also a great recovery / rescue tool containing the following: read / write access to XFS, JFS, ext3, ext2, NTFS, ReiserFS, LVM2 graphical tool, GNU Parted; QTParted; PartImage; smb4K graphical SMB tool; ClamAV for virus scanning; chkrootkit for finding potential root kits; MemTest86+ memory tester...." See the release announcement for more details. Download: CentOS-4.3-i386-LiveCD.iso (684MB, MD5).
2006-04-11 Distribution Release: CentOS 3.7
CentOS 3.7 has been released: "The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 3.7. Major changes in this version of CentOS include: Added Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) functionality to CentOS-3. IPMI is a standard for controlling intelligent devices that monitor a system. It provides for dynamic discovery of sensors in the system and the ability to monitor the sensors and be informed when the sensor’s values change or go outside certain boundaries. To use IPMI, you need an interface to an IPMI controller in your system (called a Baseboard Management Controller, or BMC) and the IPMI software." More details can be found in the release announcement. As always, the CentOS 3.x series can be easily updated via yum or up2date, while complete ISO image sets are also available for download.
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