= Welcome to CentOS

The CentOS Project <http://www.centos.org/>

image:=TCAR_BASEDIR=/Artworks/Brands/Symbols/Default/Final/ffffff-0/ffffff/64/centos.png[The CentOS Symbol]

The *Community ENTerprise Operating System*

(http://www.centos.org/[CentOS]) is an Enterprise-class Linux

Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a

prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor.  CentOS conforms

fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be

100% binary compatible.  (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove

upstream vendor branding and artwork.)

CentOS is developed by a small but growing team of core developers. In

turn the core developers are supported by an active user community

including system administrators, network administrators, enterprise

users, managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from

around the world.

CentOS has numerous advantages including: an active and growing user

community, quickly rebuilt, tested, QA'ed errata packages, extensive

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15[mirror

network], developers who are contactable and responsive, reliable

Enterprise Linux class distribution and multiple free support avenues

including http://wiki.centos.org[wiki],

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=8[IRC Chat],

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16[Email

Lists], http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/[Forums], and a dynamic

http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/[FAQ].

== License

Copyright (C) 2003-=COPYRIGHT_YEAR= The CentOS Project. All rights

reserved.

CentOS comes with no guarantees or warranties of any sorts, either

written or implied.  The Distribution is released as

file:///usr/share/doc/centos-release-=MAJOR_RELEASE=/GPL[GPL] work.

Individual packages in the distribution come with their own licences.

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