 centos (abbreviated from community enterprise operating system) is a linux distribution that attempts to provide a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform which aims to be functionally compatible with its upstream source, red hat enterprise linux (rhel). in january 2014, centos announced the official joining with red hat while staying independent from rhel, under a new centos governing board. the first centos release in may 2004, numbered as centos version 2, was forked from rhel version 2.1as. as of versions 5.10 and 6.5, centos officially supports x86-64 and x86 architectures (with physical address extension (pae) required for the latter), while a beta release is expected to be available for the powerpc architecture. == history == before it adopted the "centos" name, centos linux originated as a build artifact of caos linux.{{cite web | url = http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7239/ | title = caos nsa and perceus: all-in-one c
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