[clue] CentOS new user experience.

[David L. Willson]

The website does suck, doesn't it? I'm so used to it, I don't even notice any more; I just click the things I always click. You have the benefit of a fresh perspective. It's too bad there's probably nobody from CentOS on this list. They'd love to have your detailed feedback. I know I would in my project, anyway.

Whatever. FWIW, I'll try to describe the ISO's.

"Everything" - Download this if (and only if) you are going to be doing serious work on CentOS *without* an Internet connection.
"DVD"        - This is the "medium", the "normal", the Big Mac (or Whopper) combo.
"Minimal"    - In Ubuntu-land, this is called "Server". This CD-sized image installs a basic non-GUI CentOS.

If you want a "medium" that weighs a lot less, and you have an idea which desktop environment you like, you could choose one of the Live disks.

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This is a good time for a r3VOLution.

----- Original Message -----
> 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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