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2 unusual facts about CentOS


Greenplum

Greenplum Database was supported for production use on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2 (64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (64-bit), CentOS Linux 5.x (64-bit) and Sun Solaris 10U5+ (64-bit).

Tuttle, Oklahoma

In March 2006, Tuttle gained brief notoriety in some technical circles after former City Manager Jerry A. Taylor exchanged emails with CentOS developer Johnny Hughes, confused that a misconfiguration issue at the webhost provider was an attempt by CentOS to "hack" the City's website.


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Enlight cloud

However, vertical auto scaling is only supported on certain opeating systems such as Windows Server 2008 (Standard and Datacenter Editions) and Linux distributions including CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux and Oracle Linux.

Loomia

Loomia's content recommendation technology is built upon multiple Open Source technologies including Python, MySQL, Apache, and CentOS.

Texas Advanced Computing Center

It included 62,976 processor cores (provided by 15,744 Opteron quad-core processors in 3,936 quad-socket Sun Blade server nodes) running the CentOS Linux distribution, and originally had peak performance of 504 TFlops, 123 TB memory and 1.73 PB of storage.

Virtual security appliance

Websense DSS sensor devices use CentOS 5.2 underneath and also allow root access at setup time.


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