We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.1 LiveCD for i386 and x86_64 architectures.
Detailed Release Notes are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD6.1
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The CentOS-6.1 LiveCD is meant to be a Linux environment suited to be run directly from either CD media or USB storage devices. It does not need any persistent storage on a machine, which also makes it a suitable recovery environment.
Due to space constraints, it was not possible to include all the traditional desktop applications on the LiveCD. You can though enjoy a Gnome basic desktop, view and modify pictures with gthumb, browsing the web with Firefox, send emails with Thunderbird and connect to your favorite Instant Messaging network with Pidgin
Note that the package manifest has changed slightly from the LiveCD6.0 release: Gimp has been removed and rdesktop,tigervnc,vinagre and tsclient have been added.
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SHA256SUMs :
12a5bfbc0e4cfa1ebf9733c71c3e541a75b74db457f261ed46039b5714b2fee3 CentOS-6.1-x86_64-LiveCD.iso
f9a9b245b7e5e45a7998ba91be8545dfaa738da771fa42ba91ecca5496f8f13f CentOS-6.1-i386-LiveCD.iso
The CentOS-6.1 LiveCD is released to all external mirrors and available for download now. List of mirrors is available at these urls :
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/ http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/
We have also published torrents for the CentOS-6.1 LiveCDs : http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/CentOS-6.1-i386-LiveCD.torrent http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.1-x86_64-LiveCD.torre...
Once you download the images, its important to verify contents using the sha256sum utility, against the published sums here.
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You can now install the Live environment to your hard disk (which wasn’t possible with the 5.x Live medias). Please note that you need more that 512Mb of ram to be able to use that ‘install to hard drive’ feature (If you have less than 512Mb of ram, you can install to disk but in text-mode, meaning that instead of clicking on the desktop icon, you have to launch a gnome-terminal and launch the ‘liveinst’ command from within the terminal)
There is no upstream Live media product. The Live media produced within the CentOS Project is based on and around the livemedia tools from the Fedora Project.
These LiveCD’s only contains content found within the primary CentOS-6.1 distribution. No package from outside the distribution was included and no package has been changed from whats included in the base distribution.
We appreciate all forms of feedback about these LiveCD, including specific application inclusion requests or feature changes in future releases. The best place to provide this feedback is via the centos-devel mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) and feature requests via the issue tracker ( http://bugs.centos.org/ ).
Special thanks to Fabian Arrotin for taking up the LiveCD and LiveDVD efforts, and to everyone on the QA team who worked through the issues and helped build, test and release these images.