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| <title>Welcome to CentOS =RELEASE=</title> |
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| <copyright> |
| <year>=COPYRIGHT_YEAR_LAST=</year> |
| <holder>The CentOS Project</holder> |
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| <legalnotice> |
| <para> |
| CentOS =RELEASE= comes with no guarantees or warranties of |
| any sorts, either written or implied. The Distribution is |
| released as <ulink |
| url="/usr/share/doc/centos-release-=MAJOR_RELEASE=/GPL">GPL</ulink> |
| work. Individual packages in the distribution come with |
| their own licences. |
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| <sect1> |
| <title>What is CentOS?</title> |
| <para> |
| <ulink url="=URL=">CentOS</ulink> 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.) |
| </para> |
| <para> |
| 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. |
| </para> |
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| <sect1> |
| <title>Advantages</title> |
| <para> |
| CentOS has numerous advantages including: an active and |
| growing user community, quickly rebuilt, tested, and QA'ed |
| errata packages, an extensive <ulink |
| url="=URL=modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15">mirror |
| network</ulink>, developers who are contactable and responsive |
| reliable Enterprise Linux class distribution, multiple free |
| support avenues. |
| </para> |
| </sect1> |
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| <sect1> |
| <title>Support</title> |
| <para> |
| The following free support avenues are available: |
| </para> |
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| <para> |
| <ulink url="=URL=">The CentOS Website</ulink> |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| <ulink url="=URL_WIKI=">The CentOS Wiki</ulink> |
| (includes a dynamic <ulink |
| url="=URL_WIKI=FAQ">FAQ</ulink>) |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| <ulink |
| url="=URL=modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=8">The |
| CentOS IRC Chat</ulink> |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| <ulink url="=URL_LISTS=">The CentOS Mailing |
| List</ulink> |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para> |
| <ulink url="=URL_FORUMS=">The CentOS Forums</ulink> |
| </para> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| |
| </sect1> |
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