CentOS LiveDVD 6.4 Release Notes
Last updated: May 17th, 2013
Contents
1. Translations
Translations of these release notes are available for the following languages :
Simplified Chinese (简体中文)
Traditional Chinese (繁體中文)
2. Introduction
The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of the CentOS LiveDVD 6.4 for both i386 and x86_64 architectures. These LiveDVD are based on our CentOS-6.4 i386 and x86_64 distributions.
You can get the CentOS LiveDVD 6.4 from the CentOS mirrors:
- Filename: CentOS-6.4-i386-LiveDVD.iso
- Size: 1784676352
- MD5Sum: 84ca68ab3a29ec3816a4eeb1e1ead43e
- SHA1Sum: 139c1c73392d2e77963811ec1bc0957ffafc0cbf
SHA256Sum: 29e91fbfc30cab11661c38d767a0b1694cf57b994440575aa41b2c86a115e3e0
- Filename: CentOS-6.4-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso
- Size: 1814036480
- MD5Sum: 7a810dc146fef0951d1d3a9d71fc458e
- SHA1Sum: a158bd4694c845d684a9e59c5d0515ba738ea946
- SHA256Sum: 1dee1e5f9df0278002b7da0279ed55afdf11abc5b889f4678ba43d70979e00f1
3. Packages and Applications
4. New features
The LiveDVD can be installed to hard disk thus obtaining a fully functional CentOS GUI workstation. The set of packages that gets installed on hard disk can not be adjusted during the installation because this is a simple transfer to disk of the image existing on DVD. After booting from hard disk yum can be used to add/remove packages.
5. Known Issues
The size of the overlay is still limited to 4096 MB on the official Centos Live media
6. How to help and get help
As a CentOS user there are various ways you can help out with the CentOS community. Take a look at our Contribute page for further information on how to get involved.
6.1. Special Interest Groups
CentOS consists of different Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that bring together people with similar interests. The following SIGs already exist:
Artwork - create and improve artwork for CentOS releases and promotion
Promotion - help promoting CentOS online or at events
Virtualization - unite people around virtualization in CentOS
And we encourage people to join any of these SIGs or start up a new SIG, e.g.
- Alpha, S390, Sparc and PPC port - help with porting CentOS to other architectures
- Hardware compatibility - provide feedback about specific hardware
- RPM Packaging - contribute new useful RPM packages
- Translation - help translating the documentation, website and Wiki content
6.2. Mailinglists and Fora
Another way you can help others in the community is by actively helping and resolving problems that users come up against in the mailing lists and the fora.
6.3. Wiki and Website
Even as an inexperienced CentOS user we can use your help. Because we like to know what problems you encountered, if you had problems finding specific information, how you would improve documentation so it becomes more accessible. This kind of feedback is as valuable to others as it would have been to you so your involvement is required to make CentOS better.
So if you want to help out and improve our documentation and Wiki, register on the Wiki or subscribe to the centos-docs mailing list.
7. Further Reading
The following websites contain large amounts of information to help people with their CentOS systems :
Upstream release notes and documentation : http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/index.html
http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/
8. Thanks
We thank everyone involved for helping us produce this product and would like to specifically acknowledge the extra effort made by the QA Team.
Copyright (C) 2013 The CentOS Project
