This item includes:
CentOS Install DVD
CentOS Live CD

This item is for a CentOS Live & Install set which will allow you to try out CentOS without installing it to the hard drive. You can also use the DVD to install CentOS.

CentOS is developed by a small but growing team of core developers. In turn the core developers are supported by an active user community including system administrators, network administrators, enterprise users, managers, core Linux contributors and Linux enthusiasts from around the world.

CentOS has numerous advantages over some of the other clone projects including: an active and growing user community, quickly rebuilt, tested, and QA'ed errata packages, an extensive mirror network, developers who are contactable and responsive, multiple free support avenues including IRC Chat, Mailing Lists, Forums, a dynamic FAQ. Commercial support is also offered via a number of vendors.

CentOS 5.3 includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. And the option to further enable external repositories at install time is now available in the installer.

CentOS 5.3 features:

• Linux kernel 2.6.18
• Automatic hardware detection (udev 095)
• Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 1.0.17
• Window System: Xorg-server 1.1.1
• Desktops: GNOME 2.16 and Nautilus 2.16.2, KDE 3.5.4
• Office Applications: Emacs 21.4, OpenOffice.org 2.3.0, Vim 7.0, The GIMP 2.2.13
• Web Browser: Firefox 3.0.5
• Mail/IM: Evolution 2.12.3, Pidgin 2.5.2, Postfix 2.3.3, Sendmail 8.13.8, Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
• CD/DVD Burning: K3b 0.12.17
• Server/Client: MySQL 5.0.45, BIND 9.3.4-P1, DB 4.3.29, DHCP 3.0.5, OpenSSH 4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e, PostgreSQL 8.1.11
• Development: GCC 4.1.2, glibc 2.5, PERL 5.8.8, PHP 5.1.6, Python 2.4.3, Qt-X11 3.3.6, Gtk+ 2.10.4
• Printing: CUPS 1.3.7, Samba 3.0.33

CentOS comes with OPENOFFICE a full feature office suite similar to Microsoft Office, which is COMPLETELY COMPATIBLE with MICROSOFT OFFICE allowing you KEEP all your MS WORD DOCUMENTS, EXCEL and POWERPOINT, MOZILLA FIREFOX, the fast, popular web browser, and EVOLUTION, the Linux EMAIL and INFORMATION MANAGER, allows you to ORGANIZE all your CONTACTS, as well as tons of other software - too much to list here!

Your items will be dropped off same or next day!

This software is open source, which means it is in full observance of the General Public License agreement. The General Public License allows this Operating System to be used as many times on as many computers as you want. This is a complete copy of Linux and is not a trial version, bootleg, or limited in any way.