CentOS 5.3 released

Thursday, 28 May 2009 06:28

CentOS

The CentOS Development team has announced the availability of
the CentOS 5.3 i386 Live CD.

It can be used as a Workstation, with the following software:

Openoffice.org 2.3.0

Firefox 3.0.6

Thunderbird 2.0.0.18

Pidgin 2.5.5

Xchat 2.6.6

Gimp 2.2.13

It can also be used as a rescue CD with the following tools:

Memtest86+-1.65

Full set of LVM and RAID command line tools

Nmap and NMapFE

Traceroute

Samba-3.0.33 with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows file shares

System Log Viewer

GUI Hardware Device Manager

The following packages were removed to reach the 700MB target. You can
install them back using the 'yum install' command while running under
the LiveCD environment:

Emacs

Scribus

You can get the CentOS 5.3 i386 Live CD from the CentOS mirrors here.

Filename: CentOS-5.3-i386-LiveCD.iso

Size: 691MB

MD5Sum: 54bc01353cc67c4ddfaa7f1bc3b75c0e

SHA1Sum: 4d01884a67d585b9431336a6db39f7ec66dddc47

CentOS-5 Documentation is here.

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