| = Welcome to CentOS |
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| image:=TCAR_BASEDIR=/Artworks/Brands/Symbols/Default/Final/ffffff-0/ffffff/64/centos.png[The CentOS Symbol] |
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| == The Community ENTerprise Operating System |
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| 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.) |
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| 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. |
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| 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]. |
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| == License |
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| Copyright (C) 2003-=COPYRIGHT_YEAR= The CentOS Project. All rights |
| reserved. |
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| 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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