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CentOS

CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users which started in 2003 and has been sponsored by Red Hat since 2014. CentOS Linux versions up to CentOS Linux 8 are 100% compatible rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements.

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Aurora

Aurora is a Fedora Silverblue-based Linux distribution with the goal of being a general-purpose workstation. It uses the KDE Plasma desktop.

Technical Specs Comparison
CentOSAurora
Fedora, Red HatBaseFedora
dnf / flatpak, rpmPackage Managerflatpak / rpm
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Semi-RollingRelease ModelFixed Release
10 StreamLatest Version43
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
December 13, 2024Release DateNovember 19, 2025
ARM64ppc64elx86_64x86-64-v2
Architecture
ARM64ppc64elx86_64x86-64-v2
GNOMEKDE Plasma
Desktops
GNOMEKDE Plasma