In a story about Linux Distributions as web servers, CentOS is listed in the top 8, with about 1.5% share of the Linux webservers on the internet. This equates to nearly 100,000 web server machines

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Here is some more good info about CentOS from an IBM presentation on Enterprise Linux. The whole presentation is quite good and very relevant.

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I want to start this article by saying that CentOS is NOT officially supported by Oracle as an authorized operating system.

Oracle will probably NOT provide official support for any database that is running on CentOS.

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Jeffery Hunter has a very good Oracle DBA / Development website at http://www.idevelopment.info/. Being that one of my current jobs is as an Oracle DBA, I have used Jeff's site as reference many times.

He has several good articles about running Oracle on Linux and a couple that deal with CentOS specifically.

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Ensim, a leader in service enablement and automation software solutions, today announced a new release of the Ensim Pro control panel that supports the CentOS 4 operating system.

The chief advantages of CentOS are enterprise-grade stability and security to meet enterprise demand for the CentOS open source alternative. CentOS is especially attractive to service providers who do not need extensive support or who wish to avoid the frequent upgrades commonly associated with other Linux variants.

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Less than a month after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 4, the number one Linux distributor finds itself walking a fine line in protecting its trademark from clones of its latest product.

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It took Red Hat 16 months to produce the newest version of its premium Linux product, which went on sale in February for as much as $2,499 per computer per year.

It took a group of programmers less than two weeks to release a free clone. But the move could help Red Hat as much as it appears to hurt it.

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looper_man writes "I'm a hardware design engineer, and our tools have been migrating to Linux over the last years. I've been running Red Hat Linux 9.0 on our compute servers for a while now without a problem. The latest release of one of our CAD tools requires Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, and will *not* run with RH9.0. I'm not very happy with the (yearly!) licensing fees that Red Hat wants for RHEL3.0, so I'm looking for alternatives.

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Mister Incognito writes "As you probably know, Centos is a free distribution compiled from sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As requested, the distro has any references to Red Hat removed.

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Many Red Hat clones have sprung up since the company decided to stop offering free downloads of its flagship operating system. Distributions like White Box Linux, Lineox Enterprise Linux, Pie Box Enterprise Linux, and CentOS Linux are among the many projects that seek to fill the gap between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I tested the new CentOS 4, and found it to be a worthy upgrade that brings all the goodness of RHEL to the open source community.

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