10 Nov
2011
10 Nov
'11
4:40 p.m.
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Craig White wrote:
I personally love their minimal installation CD, from the text based install to the minimal package install, etc. and think that their minimal approach is vastly superior to Red Hat (and all downstream packagers) installer that is slow and bloated. I can typically get a vm spun up with Ubuntu in about 5 mins and it takes much longer to install a CentOS vm.
I'd argue that's not entirely true. I've been doing some testing with Spacewalk and CentOS 6 VMs on VMWare so did quite a lot of installs. 5 minutes was pretty much bang on how long it was taking to do a boot/partition/install/register to spacewalk with a fairly minimal server setup across a gigabit network.
jh