Reviews: CentOS - A Decent RHEL alternative

I have recently come across CentOS. The distribution is developed by the cAos Foundation, and its name stands for Community Enterprise Operating System.

From their website: "It is a rebuild of Redhat Enterprise Linux that conforms fully with Redhat's redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible." Differences lay mainly in artwork, CentOS closely tracks RHEL releases and updates.

Yet another GNU/Linux distribution you may argue. Yes, there is Fedora Core for those who wish to use a Red Hat like, but community based operating system. Fedora however is not to be considered a stable distribution (I must point out that I have not had a problem with it, and its 3rd release is still running on my girlfriend's laptop with frequent updates and without problems) but a testbed for technologies that will eventually make it into future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. CentOS on the other hand offers RHEL quality, and - not an unimportant aspect - free of charge.Read More @ Linuxtimes.net