CentOS Live CD

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CentOS Live CD
Software Details:
Version: 7.5 updated
Upload Date: 22 Jun 18
Developer: The CentOS Project
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 4843

Rating: 3.0/5 (Total Votes: 2)

CentOS Live CD is an open source project that provides users with a multitude of ISO images designed from the ground up to be used by people who want to just test the CentOS operating system, without installing anything on their computers.

Availability and startup options

It is available for download as Live CDs, Live DVDs, a minimal CD for those who don’t have a fast Internet connection or smaller bandwidth plan, as well as a NetInstall CD ISO image that lets users to install the operating system over the network.

The Live CD and DVD ISO images come with the same boot prompt, which allows users to just boot the live environment with default settings on in text mode, run a memory diagnostic test, boot an existing OS, as well as to install the distribution without testing it (not recommended).

We strongly recommend to leave the boot medium to start on its own, after the timeout of ten seconds expires. If you accidentally press a key during that timeout and access the boot menu, make sure to choose the “Boot” option.

Traditional desktop environment with two panels

It presents a traditional desktop environment comprised of two panels, a top one for accessing the main menu and launching applications, and a bottom one for interacting with running programs and switching between virtual workspaces.

Default applications include the Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client, Mozilla Firefox web browser, TigerVNC VNC viewer, tsclient terminal server client, gThumb image viewer, gedit text editor, and Cheese webcam viewer.

In addition, CentOS Live CD features the Nautilus file manager, Disk Utility for managing hard disk drives and USB sticks, GNOME Terminal for running commands in a terminal emulator, as well as a character map utility.

Conclusions

Overall, CentOS Live CD is a great project, the only one that allows users to test this amazing Linux-based operating system without installing anything on their computers. It provides for a great alternative to the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution.

What is new in this release:

  • In accordance with upstream CentOS 6.3 now includes libreoffice as Office suite. The "Desktop" install group will automatically install the complete suite. If you update from a previous version of CentOS 6 using 'yum update' and have openoffice installed, the update will automatically remove openoffice and install libreoffice. See this link for further information.
  • Upstream has deprecated the matahari API set for operating system management. User who choose to continue to use matahari should - as always - install the updates provided with CentOS 6.3. Matahari will not be part of future upstream releases and therefore also not of future CentOS releases. See here for more information.
  • There are new tools for moving machines (both Virtual and Physical) from their current format to a Virtual KVM Machine. The packages responsible are called virt-p2v (physical to virtual) and virt-v2v (virtual to virtual). Please see the upstream documentation linked in the further reading section of these release notes for more information on these exciting enhancements.

What is new in version :

  • In accordance with upstream CentOS 6.3 now includes libreoffice as Office suite. The "Desktop" install group will automatically install the complete suite. If you update from a previous version of CentOS 6 using 'yum update' and have openoffice installed, the update will automatically remove openoffice and install libreoffice. See this link for further information.
  • Upstream has deprecated the matahari API set for operating system management. User who choose to continue to use matahari should - as always - install the updates provided with CentOS 6.3. Matahari will not be part of future upstream releases and therefore also not of future CentOS releases. See here for more information.
  • There are new tools for moving machines (both Virtual and Physical) from their current format to a Virtual KVM Machine. The packages responsible are called virt-p2v (physical to virtual) and virt-v2v (virtual to virtual). Please see the upstream documentation linked in the further reading section of these release notes for more information on these exciting enhancements.

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