CentOS comes with firewalld by default. It allows you to manage your firewall rules based on zones. This short tutorial will cover only the basic setup with the default ‘public’ zone and how to allow ports in it.

CentOS 8 is here. And it brings a few changes from the Fedora/RHEL world. Like the new default package manager ‘dnf’. Although it is quite familiar for Fedora users, ‘dnf’ comes to kind of replace the well known ‘yum’ in the CentOS8 world.

The longly anticipated new version of CentOS – 8.0 is here. The release is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.0, includes the Linux kernel 4.18 and brings a plenty of new features and improvements.

A new CentOS release – 1804 has been just announced publicly. The latest build of the popular Linux distribution is based Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 and includes mainly bug fixes and security improvements.  CentOS is a 100% compatible rebuild of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, delivering enterprise quality operating system and features.