CentOS

CentOS is an operating system and an open-source software company founded on January 1, 2002. The company operates within the industries of operating systems and open-source software. As a company and an organization, CentOS is an instance_of both. The software provided by CentOS is an instance of software as well.

The CentOS operating system runs on multiple platforms, including ARM architecture, X86-64, and POWER8. The platform's initial release, known as CentOS Linux 1, was published on May 14, 2004.