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CentOS Linux Version 7 Released On x86_64

Posted by Unknown on from the keeping-costs-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today, CentOS project unveiled CentOS Linux 7 for 64 bit x86 compatible machines. CentOS conforms fully with Red Hat's redistribution policy and aims to have full functional compatibility with the upstream product released in last month. The new version includes systemd, firewalld, GRUB2, LXC, docker, xfs instead of ext4 filesystem by default. The Linux kernel updated to 3.10.0, support for Linux Containers, 3d graphics drivers out of the box, OpenJDK 7, support for 40G Ethernet cards, installations in UEFI secure Boot mode on compatible hardware and more. See the complete list of features here and here. You can grab this release by visiting the official mirror site or via torrents. On a related note there is also a CentOS Linux 7 installation screencast here."

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  1. Re:About time. by Sadsfae · · Score: 5, Informative

    As of this posting it doesn't look like Scientific Linux has released an EL7 version yet.
    Given the announcement earlier this year about greater collaboration between Red Hat and CentOS communities you'll most likely see more up to date releases and errata from CentOS than Scientific Linux I would imagine:

    http://www.redhat.com/about/ne...

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  2. 32bit ISOs = GONE by 00Monkey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just in case others weren't aware, there will no longer be 32 bit ISO images of RHEL or CentOS. So, you'll only have the option of 64 bit from this point forward. You can always install an older release, of course.

    Here's somewhat of an explanation from Red Hat: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/509373

    I'm curious how this will affect me. I've been doing a lot of CentOS based Asterisk systems. Last time I checked, Digium absolutely would not support the 64 bit version of their drivers and so it was recommended to use 32 bit if you want support. It could have changed by now, I'll have to look into it again.

  3. You've missed the latest kernel commit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    #if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 64
    #error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer."
    #endif

  4. Re:About time. by Nighttime · · Score: 5, Informative

    And it doesn't look like there will be a true SL7:

    http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux...

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  5. Re:Pay attention to that man behind the curtain by hughesjr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dude, you must have taken your tin foil hat off .. I could see you for a second.

    All those /// are coming from screwed up mirror/spider software (you probably wrote it) that is does not properly pay attention to robos.txt and does not properly query the tree. We didn't see it in testing becuase we queried the tree correctly. We are working with gitblit (the open source software git.centos.org is hosted with), to get this bug fixed and we will be rolling it in soon now that we have CentOS-7 released:

    http://code.google.com/p/gitbl...

    If you do a dig for the ipaddress and look at the location, git.centos.org is not hosted in a Red Hat datacenter.

    You also must not have seen the more than 500 mirrors wrldwide that host CentOS content:
    http://www.centos.org/download...

    So, other than every single point of your post being wrong, it was a very well and thought out piece of writing.