Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬History of #CentOS: How a biochemist's #Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default #operatingsystem
When a community came together after #RedHat said Windows was 'probably the right product'
#GregoryKurtzer, CentOS's founder, tells the story of how the Red Hat #EnterpriseLinux clone was born of a small group of rebuild hackers and Linux fans who were angry that #RHEL had replaced #RedHatLinux and convinced they could do better.
https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/08/history-of-centos-how-a-biochemists-linux-hobby-project-became-the-enterprise-worlds-default-operating-system/5251530 #opensource
When a community came together after #RedHat said Windows was 'probably the right product'
#GregoryKurtzer, CentOS's founder, tells the story of how the Red Hat #EnterpriseLinux clone was born of a small group of rebuild hackers and Linux fans who were angry that #RHEL had replaced #RedHatLinux and convinced they could do better.
https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/08/history-of-centos-how-a-biochemists-linux-hobby-project-became-the-enterprise-worlds-default-operating-system/5251530 #opensource
