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(Hi Giuseppe!)

Right, the standard centos system binaries are used to provision services and manage hardware.

The internal services linking against the runtime libs you mention, are actually linking against about 2000 built from source packages, and are essentially a separate distro (with a distro in this sense being an ABI compatible set of libs running on a kernel)

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I think that's not what people would normally call "the distribution" :) systemd, coreutils, ssh, shell, ... come from CentOS.

(Hi Pádraig!)