CentOS Notes
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CentOS fan page for people who still remember yum -y update

CentOS — the Linux many of us grew up with.

Here you can refresh the history of CentOS, find links to modern downloads, discover a few nerdy facts and read short, funny stories about broken configs, late-night maintenance and “one more reboot”. Not official, just a small personal corner on the web.

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What is CentOS in simple words?

For many admins and enthusiasts CentOS was the first Linux that felt “serious”: stable, predictable and often invisible when everything worked as expected. It powered internal dashboards, small websites, test environments, home labs and all sorts of experiments.

If you want to play with something CentOS-like today, you will likely look at modern successors and community projects — but the old name still brings a bit of nostalgia.

  • Stable vibe, long-living installs.
  • Good place to learn Linux basics and “real world” tasks.
  • Friendly ecosystem of RPM packages and documentation.

Lightweight stories from the terminal

A few short, harmless stories that will look familiar if you ever spent evenings near a blinking cursor:

“Just a tiny update”

“I only wanted to run a quick yum update before going home. Then the changelog turned into a book, the maintenance window magically extended, and my coffee got cold. The server lived, lesson learned: there is no such thing as a tiny update at 22:59.”

The mystery of the forgotten machine

“We found an old CentOS box humming in a corner of the office. Nobody remembered who set it up. It had been running for years, uptime looked like a phone number, and one tiny script on it still sent a daily report to someone who left the company long ago.”

Alias that saved the day

“After one near-miss with a dangerous command, I added a protective alias in my shell. Months later I typed the same thing by habit — instead of disaster I got a friendly message: ‘Are you sure? Breathe. Think. Then run it step by step.’”