[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

Tommy E Craddock Jr tommy at hivelocity.net
Wed Jun 15 09:08:01 UTC 2011


On Jun 15, 2011, at 4:50 AM, Craig White wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 08:52 -0700, Jerry Franz wrote:
> ----
> Like RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS is absolutely appropriate for server use.
> In fact, it's sort of refreshing to set up a new server that isn't
> overloaded with bloat from the very start. Setting up a new VMWare image
> w/ Ubuntu Server takes at most 10 minutes whereas doing the same w/
> CentOS 5 takes almost an hour (easier just to clone my base install copy
> kept for just that purpose).
> 
> I actually use Fedora for my Desktop. It dual boots to Ubuntu but I
> don't often use it. The only reason that I ever saw people using Fedora
> for production was because the RHEL/CentOS software packages were so
> completely out-of-date.
> 
> Craig
> 
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5 hours?  What are you choosing when installing CentOS?  I use just the Base and it installs in 10 mins on ESXi. 

Tommy Craddock









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