

However, it has been clearly adopted by a large number of community members, so it must have some weight over others. The CentOS clearly stands out amongst the others. According to the report concluded by SolveDNS, CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu and Debian are the top, and Fedora follows them. Let’s break it down into the actual OS, because there are many operating systems based on Unix are available in the market. Another clear signal is the new release of Microsoft Defender for Linux environments. For instance, Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with GUI app support and GPU hardware acceleration. To fight this trend, Microsoft have done fast and close proximity with Unix systems in the last years. According to data from W3techs, in 2017 Unix servers were used by 66.5% of all the websites, and 33.5% are using Windows OS. In the last few years, the market changed, but the Unix advantage is very clear: You can download images for VirtualBox & VMware from here.Unix-based operating systems are ruling the webserver OS market. We installed CentOS 7 in VirtualBox & Vmware and packed them for you. For the first time, this release was built from sources hosted at .“ From this point on we will aim to deliver all updates within 24 to 48 hours of upstream releases. They will be available within the next 24 hrs. Since the upstream EL7 release, there have been some updates released – these have been built and are being pushed to the CentOS mirror network at the moment.

This is the first release for CentOS 7 and is version marked as 7.0-1406.

Release announcement of CentOS 7: “ We would like to announce the general availability of CentOS 7 for 64-bit x86 compatible machines. They work with several ‘upstream’ communities to help them layer and distribute their software more effectively on a platform they can rely on. The CentOS team provide a development framework for cloud providers, the hosting community, and scientific data processing, as a few examples. The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused around the goal of providing a rich base platform for open source communities to build upon.
