CentOS Linux 7.5 (1804) Released

Post by Thaxll » Tue, May 15, 2018, 1:59 PM UTC

user5994461 wrote: post #12

hd4 wrote: post #3

Is it true that most of Silicon Valley runs on CentOS?

It's mixed CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is limited to younger folks and younger companies.

Post by Teknoman117 » Tue, May 15, 2018, 5:14 PM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #31

eatandwonder wrote: post #13

Technical problem for which I haven't found a hint of an answer online: I'm installing CentOS 7.0 x64 on a Thinkpad, my first Linux install. The install seems to go fine but on boot, right after the BIOS splash screen, in text mode, I see the following, then it stops (I'm going to use italics to be nice to people with small screens): Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi - Not Found Failed to load image \EFI\BOOT\grub…

First, let me say that if you're doing a clean/new installation, I'd recommend installing CentOS 7.5 directly (as opposed to, say, installing 7.0 and immediately upgrading to 7.5). 7.0 is almost four years old at this point and your ThinkPad's hardware may be slightly better supported by 7.5. Anyways, you might consider posting the details (including verbatim error messages, hardware (partitioning) details, etc.) in…

Post by eatonphil » Tue, May 15, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

tannhaeuser wrote: post #27

user5994461 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's mixed CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is limited to younger folks and younger companies.

Not SV, but according to my anecdata, RHEL/CentOS is more oftenly used in enterprise deployments, while Debian (and Ubuntu) traditionally dominates Web deployments. A Debian-style Apache httpd setup with structured config files and a2ensite, a2enmod, etc. is also what mainstream shared hosting workflows are based on.

Post by forapurpose » Thu, May 24, 2018, 1:08 AM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #28

forapurpose wrote: post #8

Where are good places to find CentOS technical documentation and community? I can't find a manual online, and the other resources seem insufficient. I think I must be missing something: These forums seem to have not great content or traffic (at least when I looked): https://www.centos.org/forums/ The FAQ is only a few questions, and the How-tos and Tips & Tricks are very uneven in their coverage and often outdated ("…

There is a fair amount of content on the CentOS wiki but, as you've noticed, some of it is extremely outdated or was written for older CentOS versions. One page on there that I came across recently was almost 10 years old! Depending on what the topic is, the age of an article may not be all that relevant -- the important thing is to make sure that it's aimed at the version of CentOS that you're running. Some of those…