CentOS is an Enterprise class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor nbsp 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 nbsp CentOS is free CentOS is now accepting donations via PayPal please click the button for more information
CentOS is developed by a small but growing team of core developers nbsp 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