How have been the experience of the people here with CentOS or Sceintific Linux?I used to be a Mandriva use 5 years back, then went to SUSE then to debian, but I've heard that rpm based systems have made good progress, yum avoids the old dependency hell etcI like that CentOS and Sceintific Linux are based on RHEL and aim for stability just like DebianRHEL 6 is about to be out soon (and so wil
As I mentioned in another thread, I'm trying to get into the white hat/penetration testing field and am going to buy me a cheapo desktop kit and turn it into a server so I can learn how to hack it.
Creating Virtual RedHat/CentOS/Scientific Linux/Fedora Appliances For KVM With BoxGrinder (Fedora 17)
BoxGrinder
is a tool that allows you to build virtual machines (with RedHat,
CentOS, Scientific Linux or Fedora as the OS) for multiple
virtualization techniques. Currently it supports KVM, VMware, Amazon
EC2, VirtualBox, and VirtualPC.
Thanks for this excellent thread! I managed to convert SL 6.2 -> CentOS 6.3, the remaining packages not updates but vendor branded (Scientific Linux) i left in peace, the system seems to work w... [by GamesBond]
Karanbir Singh has announced the release of CentOS 5.5, a distribution created by compiling the source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 5.5 for i386 and x86_64 architectures.
Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On CentOS 6.3
This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on CentOS 6.3. NFS stands for Network File System; through NFS, a client can access (read, write) a remote share on an NFS server as if it was on the local hard disk.
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RHEL clone Scientific Linux 6.three released Primarily created by CERN and other labs and universities, Scientific Linux is the last of the three main RHEL clones to publish its version of RHEL 6.3: Oracle made its RHEL derivative available at the end of June and this was followed by the CentOS … Read a lot [...]
Karanbir Singh has announced the release of CentOS 5.7, a free enterprise Linux distribution built from source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux of the same version number: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 5.7 for i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 5.7 is based on the upstream release EL 5.7 and includes packages from all variants including server and client.