Dag Wieers wrote: > Hi, > > I have been asked a few times about a CentOS 5 ServerCD. Is something > like this planned or simply impossible ? > > (Was reminded by this comment on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/304730/) > Some of the issues, of the top of my head : 1) Upstream now has a product called 'Server' and at the time we felt it might cause confusion to have a 'Server' that is not even remotely the same thing as upstreams 'Server' 2) ServerCD 4 to ServerCD(!) 5 upgrades required a ServerCD5 that was almost 900MB in size. 3) Since you can now have a finer level of package selection and installation control at install time, many people felt that the impact and use case for ServerCD was diminished. 4) Talk at the time of a CentOSPlus kernel based installed ( therefore xfs etc support at install time, additional drivers, perhaps some more userland stuff too ) might be a good idea, but that never got traction so we felt that if no one really cared enough to talk about it, perhaps no one really wanted it - or people already have process's in place that worked around the issue. Finally, it wasent going to be possible to get the exact same usage scenarios covered in a single CD for CentOS-5 as it was for CentOS-4. Perhaps if there is enough interest we can revisit this situation and reconsider the issues. But thats just what the reasons are why there isnt a CentOS-5 servercd at the moment. Nothing stops that situation from changing within reasonable grounds. - KB