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Centos 7 is here, ISOs added

The CentOS team have just announced a few hours ago the very first generally available release of the next major version of CentOS Linux, version 7.

The initial release is for for 64 bit x86 compatible machines only. The CentOS project say on their site homepage “There are many fundamental changes in this release, compared to previous releases of CentOS. Notably the inclusion of SystemD, Gnome3, and a default filesystem of XFS.”  For more information see the release announcement and release notes.

Existing Centos 6 users will be interested to know that, for the first time, there is a supported upgrade path from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. See the release notes for further info.

We have added the main DVD install ISO to our collection, for customers who would like to install the OS into their VPS already.  We’ve also added two Live CD versions for Gnome and KDE desktops, for those who’d like to explore the CentOS 7 environment without installing yet. The Live CDs will not modify the content of your VPS hard disk(s), unless you choose to install CentOS 7 from within the Live environment.

As always, if there is a particular operating system you’d like to see in our collection, whether you are a prospective customer thinking about joining us, or an existing customer, do not hesitate to suggest it, we will almost certainly say Yes!

Centos 6.5 and Linux Mint 16 ISOs now available

We are a VPS company that strives to always have the latest operating systems available as soon as possible after release, so that our customers can benefit from uptodate installs.  On that note we’re very pleased to announce that we have added 32-bit and 64-bit installable ISOs for the just released Centos 6.5 and Linux Mint operating systems.  For Centos 6.5, as well as the standard DVD install ISOs, we’ve also added both the minimal and net install ISOs.

You can find the release announcement for Centos 6.5 here, and the release announcement for Linux Mint 16 here.

As always, if there is a particular operating system you’d like to see in our collection, whether you are a prospective customer thinking about joining us, or an existing customer, do not hesitate to suggest it, we will almost certainly say Yes!

Centos 6.5 coming soon

With RedHat about to release Enterprise Linux 6.5, the Centos team have started building Centos 6.5 today (see this forum post).  Judging by recent Centos releases, we’ll be likely to see them releasing 6.5 in a few days or so. As soon as they do we’ll be grabbing the ISOs and adding them to our libraries so that customers can upgrade or install using an ISO.

By the way, if you have a RedHat Enterprise Linux subscription, you can install it onto a VPS if you provide us with the ISOs. Please raise a ticket if you would like to do so.

Centos 5.10 ISOs added

As Centos 5.10 was released today, we have refreshed our Centos 5 install ISOs to the new version, so that new installs of Centos 5 can take advantage of the latest version.

If you are already running CentOS-5.9 or an older CentOS-5 release, all you need to do is update your machine via yum by running :

‘yum update’

Running ‘yum list updates’ before doing the update is recommended, so you can get a list of packages that are going to be updated. To check you are indeed on CentOS-5.10, run : ‘rpm -q centos-release’ and that should return: ‘centos-release-5-10.el5.centos.1’

The Release Notes for CentOS-5.10 can be found on-line at :

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.10

Centos 6.4 ISOs added

As Centos 6.4 was released today, we have refreshed our Centos 6 install ISOs to the new version, so that new installs of Centos 6 can take advantage of the latest version.

Upgrading from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5:

Centos recommends everyone run through a reinstall rather than attempt an inplace upgrade from CentOS-4 or CentOS-5.

 

Upgrading from CentOS-6.0 / 6.1 / 6.2 or 6.3

Unless you have edited your yum configs, a ‘yum update’ should move your machine seamlessly from any previous CentOS-6.x release to CentOS-6.4

The Release Notes for CentOS-6.4 can be found on-line at :

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.4