[clue] CentOS new user experience.

[Chris Fedde]

CentOS website does seem a bit thin these days.   We use centos quite a bit
but for the most part we think we know what we need to know to use it in
the business setting.


On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:58 AM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
wrote:

> I got asked about using RHEL recently.  Since I'm not a Red Hat customer I
> looked at CentOS.  How
> disappointing.
>
> So I go to centos.org and click the friendly Get CentOS Now button.  That
> tells me i can get the DVD
> ISO, Everything ISO, or Minimal ISO.  Where does it tell me what the
> difference is?  Not the FAQ or
> anything else I could find.  Pity.
>
> I can't click on one of the friendly buttons (DVD ISO seems likely, since
> it's first).  That just
> tells me I can't download .iso files directly.
>
> So I use the less obvious "via Torrent" link.  You'd think that might give
> me a button, or
> directions on feeding my torrent client.  No, I get a list of mirrors
> (that's not all bad, now I
> have a list of files I can get (.torrent and .iso)).
>
> Pity the learning curve isn't more flat.  I guess if I wanted to get a DVD
> and install I'd ask
> Google and follow the directions off some guy's blog rather than just
> going to centos.org.  Oh well.
>
> Thanks for listening!
>
> Dave
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