

The netinstall image can be used for doing installs over network. For more flexibility in selecting which packages you want to have installed, please use the DVD image. You can also install CentOS to your hard disk from the live media images, but please note that what gets installed on your hard disk is exactly the same as you see when using the live media. These allow you to test out CentOS by booting from the DVD or USB stick. Live media images are also available, both for Gnome and KDE desktop environments. Using the Everything image does not give you more options for package selection within the installer. The 'Everything' image is more than twice the size of the ordinary DVD and is not required for most common installs - it is intended for use by sysadmins who want to run their own local mirror.

It allows selecting which components you want to install and contains all packages that can be selected from the GUI installer. If you are unsure which image to use, pick the DVD image. All of these images can either be burned on a DVD or dd’ed to an USB memory stick. Which image you need to download depends on your installation environment. Various installation images are available for installing CentOS. See this link if you plan to use Security Profiles. If certified / verified software that has guaranteed assurance is what you are looking for, then you likely do not want to use CentOS Linux. The Security Profiles provided in the CentOS Linux installers are a conversion of the ones included in RHEL Source Code.

The CentOS Project does not provide any verification, certification, or software assurance with respect to security for CentOS Linux. In CentOS Linux all content from every distribution 'channel' is made available to the user at time of installation. We have decided not to follow Red Hat's usage of Installation Roles. CentOS mainly changes packages to remove Red Hat's branding and artwork. You can read our official product announcement for this release here.ĬentOS conforms fully with Red Hat's redistribution policy and aims to have full functional compatibility with the upstream product. The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproducible platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 1. Hello and welcome to the eighth CentOS-7 release. Translations of these release notes are available for the following languages:
