CentOS 7 released on x86_64 • Hacker News Board

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by btbuilder » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 1:59 AM UTC

I must say that compared with the CentOS 6 release CentOS 7 is a breath of fresh air. I'll assume for the moment that this is because of Red Hat's involvement in the process. Specically the availability of build scripts and the openness of communication throughout the process.

The delay in releasing CentOS 6 and the delays in updates had me worried about the future of CentOS.

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by ck2 » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 2:45 AM UTC

nailer wrote: post #4

Woo. Have been using the RHEL 7 Amazon AMI images, and it's nice not to worry about shell scripts / custom supervisord stuff for your web services anymore. My node app is deployed with a single `myapp.service` file thanks to systemd: [Service] ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/node --harmony /var/www/myapp/server.js Restart=always User=nobody Group=nobody Environment=PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin Environment=NODE_ENV=productio…

How do you do "configtest" and "graceful" with systemd/systemctl

(trick question, you cannot, use old init.d scripts)

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by greglindahl » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 2:55 AM UTC

btbuilder wrote: post #71

I must say that compared with the CentOS 6 release CentOS 7 is a breath of fresh air. I'll assume for the moment that this is because of Red Hat's involvement in the process. Specically the availability of build scripts and the openness of communication throughout the process. The delay in releasing CentOS 6 and the delays in updates had me worried about the future of CentOS.

The CentOS team completely re-did their build system at the start of CentOS 6, and that was cause of the delay. This build system still has nothing in common with Red Hat's build system, and it worked pretty well for CentOS 7!

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by beedogs » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 3:35 AM UTC

mackal wrote: post #50

Torgo wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does "years of fucking with PulseAudio problems" count as its own item, or is that a subset of item 1?

I've never had issues with PulseAudio personally.

...said no one ever.

The very first thing I used to do on any new Linux install (until most distros stopped including it) was to uninstall Pulse and all of its dependencies.

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by beedogs » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 3:38 AM UTC

netcraft wrote: post #21

bitJericho wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://boycottsystemd.org/

>...an abhorrent and violent slap in the face to the Unix philosophy... I can't imagine why this didn't get more traction.

Why do people use words like "violent" to describe the decision to change process launchers? Maybe if they'd toned down the rhetoric just a tiny bit that campaign might've worked better.

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by veeti » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 3:58 AM UTC

kureikain wrote: post #43

I always scare of CentOS/Fedora. Whenever I updated something, it will be very old packages. Leading to use 3rd repo, and without any kind of document, the next sysadmin will be in trouble. I used to install Gearman on Centos 5.9 and it was a nightmare: the original 3rd repo didn't have gearman and I have to use other repo which is complain about PHP-Common conflicting. Remi and webtactic did help at the end. It's ha…

Huh? Fedora is probably the closest you get to a bleeding edge distro without going rolling release.

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by pippop » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 4:03 AM UTC

I have loaded centos 7 onto laptop and I can't get into it its asking for localhost and password when I put it in it repeats

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by pippop » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 4:04 AM UTC

Can't get into cent is 7

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by rdtsc » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 4:05 AM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #20

topbanana wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are quite a few choices of lightweight Linux distro. This isn't aimed at that market

Oh, I know, but I've been happily using CentOS 6 on my 128MB box, and was looking forward to CentOS 7.

Granted it is an Enterprise level distro with iscsi, storage drivers, xfs as default, other relatively heavy things in it included by default. Running on smaller machines was never a goal, if it did, it was probably accidental.

I don't even know if they have an ARM port (maybe an ARM 64bit for those new hip low wattage ARM microservers).

Re: CentOS 7 released on x86_64

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Post by pippop » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 4:05 AM UTC

Can't get into cent is 7