[CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.2 i386 Live CD is released

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The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the

availability of the CentOS 5.2 i386 Live CD.

 

This CD is based on our CentOS-5.2 i386 distribution.

 

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

 

# openoffice.org 2.3.0

# firefox 3.0

# thunderbird 2.0.0

# pidgin 2.3.1

# scribus 1.3.3.2

# xchat 2.6.6

# k3b 0.12.17

# 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

# QTParted

# Nmap and NMapFE

# traceroute

# samba-3.0.28 with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows

file shares

# System Log Viewer

# GUI Hardware Device Manager

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The CentOS Live CD project home page is here:

https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/

 

Live CD build scripts, screenshots, booting from a USB key,

custom Live CD Creation and other information is available

there.

 

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The CentOS 5.2 i386 Live CD is based on the Fedora livecd-tools

project:

 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD

 

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You can get the CentOS 5.2 i386 Live CD from the CentOS mirrors:

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/

 

* Filename: CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.iso

* Size: 730816512

* MD5Sum: 32ec33037004f35505aad533f25c2f93

* SHA1Sum: bc333a58644bd4e9d1b6c07ccea73b154d80e093

 

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Release Notes:

 

LiveCD Release Notes:

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.2

 

CentOS-5.2 Release Notes:

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.2

 

upstream Release Notes here:

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-x86/index.html

 

CentOS-5 Documentation is here:

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/

 

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The CentOS Project would like to thank Patrice Guay for the

creation of this CD. Patrice did the CentOS-5.0 and CentOS-5.1

live CD and graciously donated his time and effort to make this

one too.

 

We would also like to thank the CentOS QA team for testing this

LiveCD and their many suggestions to make it better.

 

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Visit our website at http://www.centos.org/