The two companies have formed a partnership that could prove very succesful

Jan 9, 2014 10:40 GMT  ·  By

The CentOS project has joined forces with Red Hat, in an effort to promote the premium OS developed for commercial entities.

It's unsure whether Red Hat has just swallowed CentOS or if it's more of a partnership, but it seems to be a serious endeavor. The CentOS developers also changed their website and replaced it with a more modern one.

“With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red Hat family. The CentOS Project is joining forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards team to foster rapid innovation beyond the platform into the next generation of emerging technologies.”

“Working alongside the Fedora and RHEL ecosystems, we hope to further expand on the community offerings by providing a platform that is easily consumed, by other projects to promote their code while we maintain the established base,” said CentOS' Karanbir Singh.

If you are interested to see what CentOS looks like, you can download the latest 6.5 version from Softpedia.