
Red Hat announced to sponsor the CentOS in January 2014, due to which the ownership of CentOS trademarks was granted to Red Hat.Ī final product similar to RHEL was developed by CentOS developers using Red Hat’s source code to aim at the functional compatibility of RHEL. It became the most popular Linux distribution in July 2010, with almost 30% of all servers using it, but Debian overtook it in January 2012. It was initially originated as a build artifact of CAOS Linux. It is no cost and free to distribute, hence popular among users, web hosts and small businesses. The following article provides an outline for How to Install CentOS? CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a distribution of Linux derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) released in March 2004.
