In the Night was released the latest stable version of CentOS , the excellent enterprise level Linux distribution derived from official sources for Red Hat , the only primates that contexts of new installations to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition . CentOS (which stands for Community Enterprise Operating System) is the official choice of many ISPs and hosting resellers.

A curiosity: although CentOS is derived directly from Red Hat Enterprise Linux , the official website of the only distro that reads "CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources Freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor" . This will have obvious repercussions for the success of CentOS resulted in relationships with Red Hat

Here, finally, some passages of the ' official announcement : "The single CD server install for CentOS 4.7 has now Been released and is available from all active mirrors. Notes: this installer will only work with i686-based CPUs; the included packages are a subset of all packages available in the CentOS distribution, However yum has-been pre-configured to use the Entire repository, in order To ensure that drivers and other third Maintain compatibility-party applications, the package used in September on the Server CD is from release time CentOS 4.7, you are strongly Encouraged to run a 'yum update' Immediately after installation, the ISO size is lower than the 650 MB acceptable for a single CD - feedback on what other packages added or removed Should Be from this CD for the next release are welcome. "