If you looking to install a fresh copy of CentOS 7, then follow the below article that describes a step-by-step guide on how to install CentOS 7 with screenshots.įor those, who are looking to upgrade from CentOS 6.x to CentOS 7, there is a supported upgrade only from latest CentOS 6.5 version (at the time of writing this article) to the latest release of CentOS 7.

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.

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