CentOS 5 Released

jonesy16 writes "Only a few weeks behind the release of Red Hat Enterprise 5, CentOS announced today the immediate release of version 5 of the free derivative of RHEL 5. Torrents are available for both i386 and x86_64. New features include compiz and AIGLX support as well as better virtualization and thin-client support. Package updates include Apache-2.2, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, and KDE-3.5."

Re:Does anyone even use this OS?

[arun_s]

Who uses CentOS? Well, the website of this [wikipedia.org] *ahem* rather famous city runs on it :)

Pirates!

[vivaoporto]

Torrents are available for both i386 and x86_64.

OMG, pirates!! I'm sooo calling the BSA.

Re:Pirates!

[ady1]

quick, here's the number:

1800-BULSHTALNC

This guy uses CentOS, straight outta Brazil!

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.tuttle-ok.gov/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SE C= [tuttle-ok.gov]{CC5DEFB6-1B2A-4783-A5F8-A92275C95081}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_A._Taylor [wikipedia.org]

City Manager Jerry A. Taylor

Jerry A. Taylor I am pleased to serve the citizens of the City of Tuttle. I am dedicated to working with the City Government Officials and citizens to ensure Tuttle maintains the qualities that makes it a great place to live. Many challenges lie ahead to meet the rapid growth of this community. The citizens of this city worked many hours to help develop a consolidated plan for growth of the city through the year 2020. This plan ensures that future growth is managed in an orderly manner. Having a plan provides direction and guidelines to ensure city services are available to accomodate the demand resulting from increased growth. I welcome new ideas to enrich the community and provide a better quality of life for all residents. Please call me, or come by my office at City Hall. My door is always open and I answer all calls.

Re:Pirates!

[jjacksonRIAB]

In Soviet Amerika, the BSA calls YOU!

In other news...

[jjacksonRIAB]

City manager of Tuttle decries more sophisticated attacks against his website, threatening legal ramifications against hacker terror networks who have targetted him for termination.

Re:Does anyone even use this OS?

[Linker3000]

Yeah, sorry about that - I was doing an update to my CentOS server at home over a flaky broadband link and every time it reconnected I got a different dynamic IP address. BTW how's the other user getting on with their system?

Stop Hacking!

[Mark_in_Brazil]

Dear CentOS developers,

Please stop hacking my browser. When I visit my favorite site, Slashdot, your software's name keeps appearing on my browser. If you don't stop this at once, I will be forced to call the FBI and report your hacking.

Thank you.

Cool

[Jimbo God of Unix]

Does that make it NickelOS?

Re:Stop Hacking!

[hobo sapiens]

FIX IT NOW!!~!!!! THIRD NOTICE!~!

This line is just to make slashdot's lameness filter accept all the caps I just typed. Please ignore it.

Re:Red Hat and the GPL

[Anonymous Coward]

I completely agree! While RedHat does comply with the letter of the GPL they don't bring the actual sourcecode to my house. Furthermore they don't take the time to explain what every line of code does and they are completely unwilling to send an employee to my house to type in the commands necessary to download it. Thank goodness I still have my mommy to hold my peepee and shake of the last few drops when I go potty!