Software Update: CentOS 7 (2009)

CentOS is an open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and designed for use in enterprise environments. The name is an abbreviation of Community Enterprise Operating System. Unlike RHEL, CentOS is free to use. When looking at popularity, CentOS dangles at the bottom of the top twenty† A new version of CentOS appears every two years, which is then provided with updates for seven years. Version 7 (2009) of CentOS has now been released and the full release notes are here to find. This is the announcement for this release:

Release for CentOS Linux 7 (2009) on the x86_64 Architecture

We are pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (2009) for the x86_64 architecture. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 2009, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Source Code.

As always, read through the Release Notes – these notes contain important information about the release and details about some of the content inside the release from the CentOS QA team. These notes are updated constantly to include issues and incorporate feedback from the users.