CentOs 4.0 Released

fluor2 writes "The CentOS team is pleased to announce availability of CentOS 4.0. Major new features include the Linux 2.6 Kernel, SELinux, udev replacing the /dev system, Xorg, MySQL4, CyrusIMAPD, Gnome 2.8 and KDE 3.3. These improvements along with many more are detailed in the release notes available online. We read recently about Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage, and the solution is now to link to a Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor (PNAELV).
Go ahead and download CentOs from one of their mirrors."

well....

[sethadam1]

It's not new. It used to be Whitebox Linux, and then the two projects merged. It's certainly not a novel idea to recompile all of Red Hat's SRPMs. Remember linuxinstall.org? Or JAMD? All of these projects are essentially recompiles plus one or two tweaks.

Whitebox is/was pretty popular, and CentOS looks to be a good product too. It's not quite the new fledling it seems you think. You should try it. It even works with regular RHEL/Fedora yum repositories.

Re:How similar is it?

[FidelCatsro]

from the centOS site
"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 free, however, we ask for a small contribution. CentOS is a project of the cAos Foundation."

So it apears the only changes made are to remove brandings. So i would imagine it would run in a near identical fashion to RHEL ,
http://www.centos.org.nyud.net:8090/ [nyud.net]
all the info is on the main page(coral cach just incase) , i cant tell you definantly if they achive this goal , but I see very little reason as to why they shouldnt , unless redhat is not
opening all its sources , which is unlikly.

Release Notes. Correct Link.

[eigerface]

Here. [centos.org]

Torrents

[Kalak]

for DVD [gatech.edu]
for binary disks 1-4 [gatech.edu]

Note for x86_64 users

[Beatbyte]

There is NO 4.0 final release ISO files as of yet. The latest available are the 4.0 RC1 ISO's.

You'll have to wait a bit for the new ISO's.

Other distros based on RHEL 4

[waynegoode]

There are other distros based on RHEL 4.

• Lineox [lineox.net] released [lineox.net] 4.0 on 2/25.
• Piebox [piebox.org] released [piebox.org] 4.0 on 2/28. No free binary downloads.
• White Box [whiteboxlinux.org], no 4.0 yet.
• Scientific Linux [scientificlinux.org], no 4.0 yet.

There are more at DistroWatch [distrowatch.com]. See their list [distrowatch.com] of Red Hat based distos.

Some clarifications

[fief]

CentOS is one of several projects that took the source rpms from Redhat and recompiled them into a working set of isos (minus Redhat copyrighted material). Whitebox Linux [whiteboxlinux.org], Tao Linux [taolinux.org], and Scientific Linux [scientificlinux.org] are some others.

They were basically all started independantly of each other.

Whitebox (being the only one I have really used extensively) is run out of Beauregard Parish Public Library [beau.org] by a a JMorris [slashdot.org]. He rules with a tyranical fist and has no desire to offer anything other than the bare minimum of changes needed to make the rebuild possible. Now I like this hard-line leadership, but it has caused some friction as to the timelyness of updates.

I did recently convert a machine that was Whitebox Linux to Tao Linux to verify that it could be done. I followed this basic procedure. With this basic procedure, picking one of the projects over another isn't that much of a life or death decision. It is relatively easy to move between this projects. [centos.org]

As far as I can tell (not having seen an actual RHEL box) both Whitebox and Tao are very accurate representations of RHEL. I have yet to see an instance where a package desigend for RHEL didn't work with Whitebox and Tao. I have installed Oracle, vmware, various rpm's that were packaged for RHEL without much troubles.

Re:some explanation

[Anonymous Coward]

> Sounds interesting, I imagine if I were to try and sell my bosses on a Linux system for work they'd want something like RHEL, and this is a way to get hold of it and try it without buying a license. you could get a full prototype going and not need to spend any money until you wanted a real copy with a support contract.

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/eval/

Re:well....

[Sosarian]

The projects are unrelated.

If you'd like to migrate from WBEL:
Migration from WBEL to Centos [centos.org]

Also check out Whiteboxlinux.net [whiteboxlinux.net] you'll see that the site maintainer was growing frustrated with lack of updates to Whitebox, and switched over to Centos.

The projects were started about the same time.

There are also other competing projects Taolinux, Rocks, XOS, etc...

Re:MySQL 4.1 with PHP 4?

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad you can't use google to answer your question *before* you post FUD.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.htm l