On 02/15/2017 09:45 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
My start with CentOS 7 to some extent reminded me this MacOS Server experience ;-) No, not ansence of documentation, but the attitude to make everybody use GUI. Exactly as you notice. I bet many users were lost by Linux then...
Sometimes on this list I get the impression that I've downloaded an entirely different release of CentOS 7 to other people.
Exactly what GUI do you ever have to use with CentOS7? systemd all in has caused me remarkably little bother, getting on and doing what it's told. I had some logind glitches, but those were fixable. I configure the lot with puppet, and to be honest found C7 pretty pain free as an upgrade. For various reasons, real happiness didn't arrive until 7.2, but then lots of that was due to nvidia driver behaviours with Gnome3 that I suspect most people don't have to worry about.
But complaining that CentOS 7 is GUI driven I find baffling.
Exactly.
If I install CentOS-7 on a desktop, I use gui things. If I install CentOS-7 on a server, I never install gui things (unless I am doing for someone who specifically asks for that).
nmcli allows you to do anything you would do in a NM GUI.
But the real bottom line is .. this is not the place where any of that could be changed anyway. CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL source code .. if RHEL does it, so do we.
The other thing is .. CentOS-6 has security support until 30 Nov 2020, so no one has to upgrade to CentOS-7 or systemd for 3.75 more years. If you like the older things, use CentOS-6. If you want the new things, use CentOS-7.