{"id":957,"date":"2011-07-11T16:55:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T20:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2011-07-11T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T20:55:44","slug":"centos-6-first-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"centos 6 &#8211; first thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/centos.org\">CentOS<\/a> 6 was released <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.centos.org\/Manuals\/ReleaseNotes\/CentOS6.0\">today<\/a>. So far, I am not impressed.<\/p>\n<p>I run a *lot* of virtual machines. So I thought I&#8217;d give the netinstall edition a try with the &#8220;minimal&#8221; install option: when the installer reboots at the end, there is no valid boot image on the drive and starting-up fails.<\/p>\n<p>So I switched to the DVD installer. First problem: CentOS comes on <strong><em>2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0DVDs &#8211; RHEL 6 (and 6.1) come on one each.<\/p>\n<p>The minimal install profile does not configure any network, or any useful packages &#8211; it is <em>truly<\/em>\u00a0minimal. So, while the system will boot once the DVD has finished installing, it is pretty much not usable.<\/p>\n<p>Afetr the smoothness I&#8217;ve experienced with RHEL 6.1, I think I&#8217;m going to need to evaluate other long-term releases instead of CentOS, unless they get their act together &#8211; <em>fast<\/em>. It&#8217;s been 7 <strong>MONTHS<\/strong>\u00a0since RHEL 6 came out. CentOS historically only lagged a few <em>weeks<\/em>\u00a0behind. This is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Shame, too &#8211; always like that you could &#8220;upgrade&#8221; a CentOS box to RHEL by adding an RHN license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CentOS 6 was released today. So far, I am not impressed. I run a *lot* of virtual machines. So I thought I&#8217;d give the netinstall edition a try with the &#8220;minimal&#8221; install option: when the installer reboots at the end, there is no valid boot image on the drive and starting-up fails. So I switched &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=957\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">centos 6 &#8211; first thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}