CentOS is een opensourcebesturingssysteem dat gebaseerd is op Red Hat Enterprise Linux en zich profileert voor gebruik in enterpriseomgevingen. De naam is een afkorting van Community Enterprise Operating System. In tegenstelling tot RHEL is CentOS gratis te gebruiken. Hoewel versie 7.0 van CentOS alweer vier jaar uit is, heeft men in de 6.x-tak nog een update uitgebracht. De aankondiging en belangrijkste wijzigingen in versie 6.10 zien er als volgt uit:
Release for CentOS Linux 6.10 i386 and x86_64
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS Linux 6.10 and install media for i386 and x86_64 Architectures.
CentOS Linux 6.10 is derived from source code released by Red Hat, Inc. for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10. All upstream variants have been placed into one combined repository to make it easier for end users. Workstation, server, and minimal installs can all be done from our combined repository. All of our testing is only done against this combined distribution.
There are various changes in this release, compared with the past CentOS Linux 6 releases, and we highly recommend everyone study the upstream Release Notes as well as the upstream Technical Notes about the changes and how they might impact your installation.
All updates since the upstream 6.10 release are also on the CentOS mirrors as zero day updates. When installing CentOS-6.10 (or any other version) from any of our media, you should always run 'yum update' after the install to apply these.
Major changes
- The following packages have been rebased to a newer upstream release: pacemaker, clufter, gcc-libraries
- GCC now supports retpolines, which aids in mitigating Spectre Variant 2 attacks
- iptables-services can now read configuration files from /etc/sysctl.d
- BIND contains the new root KSK in preparation for the upcoming DNSSEC Root Zone Key-Signing-Key rollover
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