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CentOS 7 Released

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 08 2014, @10:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-for-info dept.

joekiser writes:

After weeks of testing, CentOS 7 has been released. For a list of RELEASE NOTES, please see the Wiki.

CentOS falls in line with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, released just 26 days ago. It is also worth noting that an ALPHA release of Scientific Linux 7.0 is also available for testing.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by evilviper on Friday July 11 2014, @07:54AM

    by evilviper (1760) on Friday July 11 2014, @07:54AM (#67489) Homepage Journal

    Just because you can put ZFS on a sdcard doesn't mean its a wise idea and almost no machines in the universe will ever be able to use it, no cameras, no cellphones, most computers...

    If you used Ext2, ANY computer could read it, including Android phones, some embedded devices, and more. If Linux developers hadn't gone nuts and spread their file system development efforts too thin, then something like Ext2/3 likely would have gotten popular with devices, before ExFat came along, and before Microsoft was licensing NTFS. All your devices might support Ext2 today, for just a small change in leadership.

    And if Linux had used UFS/FFS instead of developing Ext2 in the early days, I KNOW UFS would have taken over the world by now. A much better file system, and one with legacy support in all Unix-like OSes the world over, from Irix to AIX to Solaris, without any of the limitations of Ext2/3.

    And don't scoff at ZFS. It's still early days, and could very well take over the world, in time.

    It is exactly like your UDF/iso9660 example for optical, I can burn a dvd disk with, say, btrfs, but that would be insane because I don't own a single DVD player appliance or any machine with a BIOS that use it in any way.

    iso9660 is only useful on MS-DOS, having 8.3 file names, and many other strict limits. Instead, you have to master CDs with a mess of hybrid file systems, and extensions to work on more than one OS...

    Rock Ridge, Joilet, HFS, etc., ALL are necessary on some systems, but don't work on others. iso9660 is a crappy mess, and you're holding it up as an example to follow? Insane.

    If it was a good idea, being open source, the linux community would have copied that good idea... so either its too hard to copy (LOL) or isn't a good idea (fairly likely) or is patented (LOL)

    That's just circular logic. It implies everyone, everywhere is technocratic, has no other motivations, and are all perfect at judging such things. Many things done in Linux have been pointless dead-ends. And there's no question that Linux has lagged behind the BSDs in hardware support and performance at various times, so your claims fall completely flat.

    I will ignore the rest of your silly rant.

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