CentOS comes as 6CD set 7CD for the 64bit version or as singlelayer DVD. wanting fact RH has shown painfully increased awareness of lately. The installation process uses graphical interface with onscreen instructions, but you will need to customize the disk partitioning. While RH still appears to have legs, the company has played very close to the line of providing useful service and annoying the hell out of its customer base and in particular technical evangelists. The problem with RHN is the persystem licensing requirements. RH have succeeded beyond all expectations on this last front..
CentOS comes as 6CD set 7CD for the 64bit version or as singlelayer DVD. The installation went without hitch. RH have succeeded beyond all expectations on this last front.. These are complaints coming directly from experience at various corporate settings, ranging from tech startups to Fortune firms. Its wonderful way to alienate your technical evangelists and make supporting your product more difficult. While RH still appears to have legs, the company has played very close to the line of providing useful service and annoying the hell out of its customer base and in particular technical evangelists.
The installer correctly recognized the presence of the other OS on the machine and configured the bootloader accordingly. In my own recommendations to management, suggest that if youre going to go with RHlike system, you as well go with RH, because youre ultimately shooting the value proposition in the foot to mangle metaphors by cutting off its air supply. downloaded the DVD version and used it to boot my server. While you could argue that this is we want something for nothing situation, the truth is that key GNULinux feature has been deployment flexibility and freedom from licensing constraints.
Installation is straightforward similar to that of previous versions of CentOS and similar to Fedora Core and shouldnt be difficult, especially if you are used to installing Linux. While RH still appears to have legs, the company has played very close to the line of providing useful service and annoying the hell out of its customer base and in particular technical evangelists. The problem with RHN is the persystem licensing requirements.