CentOS 6.x will be supported until 2020įollowing are the direct and torrent download links to CentOS 7 iso images, you may need a Linux torrent client to download them.

No more ext4 filesystem, added XFS as default filesystem.

No more text log files for system log (journalctl instead).

Difficultly in understanding /etc/init.d.

Difficultly in understanding and editing nf (grub2).

Supports installations in UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot form on compatible hardwareīefore you go for CentOS 7.0 after CentOS 6.x, I suggest you to consider following things, because many of things have been changed in this release.Upgrade from 6.5 to 7.0 using preupg command.Open VMware Tools & 3D graphics drivers out of the box.CentOS 7 Major Changesįollowing are the more notable changes are included in this release are: Notably the involvement of Gnome3, Systemd, and a default XFS filesystem. There are countless fundamental changes in this major release, compared to earlier versions of CentOS. This release is based on the upstream release of EL7 ( Enterprise Linux 7) and most of the packages have been built from source and updated to more recent versions. This newly released CentOS 7.0 is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution built from sources and freely maintained to the public by Red Hat. This is the first major release for CentOS 7 and actual version is 7.0-1406.

After three weeks of continuous testing, CentOS project team finally on Mon July 7the 2014 released CentOS Linux 7 for 64 bit x86 compatible systems.

Centos 7 server iso