---

# Feel free to add content and custom Front Matter to this file.

# To modify the layout, see https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/#overriding-theme-defaults

title: The CentOS Project

title_lead: |

  Community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open

  source ecosystem around a Linux platform.

layout: home

with_toc: false

with_breadcrumbs: false

with_title: false

with_sponsors: true

---

<style>

div.hero-signal {

height: 30px;

min-height: 40px;

background-color: #a14f8c;

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</style>

  {% assign distributions = site.data.centos.distributions %}

  {% for distro in distributions %}

        
{{ distro.title }}

        
{{ distro.description }}

{% if distro.page %}

        Learn more 

{% endif %}

{% if distro.download %}

         Download

{% endif %}

  {% endfor %}

## Special Interest Groups

CentOS Special Interest Groups create CentOS distributions,

develop and package additional software on top of CentOS,

and help the CentOS project with documentation and outreach.

{% assign sigs = site.data.centos.sigs %}

  {% for sig in sigs %}

  {% if sig.highlight %}

        
{{ sig.title }}

        
{{ sig.description }}

        {% if sig.page %}

          Learn more 

        {% elsif sig.docs %}

          Learn more 

        {% elsif sig.repo %}

          Learn more 

        {% endif %}

  {% endif %}

  {% endfor %}

  {% for sig in sigs %}

  {% unless sig.highlight or sig.inactive %}

      {% if sig.page %}

        {{ sig.title }}

      {% elsif sig.docs %}

        {{ sig.title }}

      {% elsif sig.repo %}

        {{ sig.title }}

      {% else %}

        {{ sig.title }}

      {% endif %}

      — {{ sig.description}}

  {% endunless %}

  {% endfor %}

  
All Special Interest Groups

## News

{% for post in site.data.centos.blog.items limit: 4 %}

    
{% include base/link.html name=post.title url=post.link %}

    
by {{ post.author }} @ {{ post.pubDate }} 

{% endfor %}

## Videos

{% assign videos = site.data.centos.videos %}

  {% for video in videos %}

        
{{ video.title }}

          Watch 

  {% endfor %}