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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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Solus

Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and its flagship edition uses the Budgie desktop environment.

Technical Specs Comparison
CentOSSolus
Fedora, Red HatBaseIndependent
dnf / flatpak, rpmPackage Managereopkg, flatpak
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Semi-RollingRelease ModelRolling Release
10 StreamLatest Version4.9
IntermediateDifficultyBeginner
December 13, 2024Release DateApril 18, 2026
ARM64ppc64elx86_64x86-64-v2
Architecture
ARM64ppc64elx86_64x86-64-v2
GNOMEBudgieKDE PlasmaXfce
Desktops
GNOMEBudgieKDE PlasmaXfce