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| FEATURE | DESCRIPTION |
| KEY FEATURES | CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. 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.) Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| Supported architectures | x86, x86_64, ia64 ,s390, s390x, ppc, i686 |
| Minimal hardware requirements | ???MHz CPU, 256MB RAM, 3GB HDD for install and 120MB HDD for download |
| Software freedom status | (?) TODO |
| INSTALLATION | |
| Installer - overall | (8) if you got larger ram, it will start with gui installer and very easy to follow. for low ram, it will start ncurse installer with same ease |
| Package selection | (5) if you do server install, all packages are enough. but for desktop install, you will have to dig for other repos to support mp3/ntfs and others |
| Predefined package groups | (7) standard grouping can be shown with yum grouplist |
| Expert mode install | (?) TODO |
| Graphical installer | (7) only if you got enough ram |
| Installer speed | (?) TODO |
| CONFIGURATION | |
| Graphical system management | (6) standard whatever came with gnome/kde/etc |
| Console-based system management | (?) TODO |
| PACKAGE SYSTEM | |
| Number of packages | (?) TODO |
| Package management, automatic dependency resolving | (7) yum can do this |
| Graphical package management tools | (7) need to install yumex from extra repo |
| PERFORMANCE | |
| System boot-up speed | (7) more or less… |
| System responsiveness | (7) TODO |
| STABILITY/SECURITY | |
| Popularity | (3) Mainly used on servers. |
| Security focus | (7) security should be on higher priority coz the system is targeted at enterprise use |
| Stability and maturity | (8) very mature. it usually use somewhat older, stable and proven version. for example, it's firefox 1.5. also, it usually also contain the bugs from upstream (rhel). fc6 > rhel5 > centos5 |
| INTERNATIONALIZATION | |
| Does the installer support multiple languages? | (?) TODO |
| Is the system localized after installation? | (?) TODO |
| Is manual system localization easy? | (?) TODO |
| APPLICATIONS/NETWORK | |
| Support for restricted formats | (1) need to find on thirdparty repo |
| Sagem DSL modem support | (?) TODO |
| Alcatel DSL modem support | (?) TODO |
| ISDN support | (?) TODO |
| Wireless support | (?) TODO |
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This is what I like — activity without even calling for it :)
Thanks.
I'm not good in english, So, If you can correct some misspelling and gramma please do it.
PS. I want LinuxTLE and LinuxSIS from NECTEC, Thailand(I'm in Thailand) in here too but they are in Thai only
If they are in Thai only then there is no big reason to describe them on Polishlinux — we are targetting English-speaking users. But describing CentOS is of course a good idea and I hope someone will continue your efforts.