If you wish to learn how to work on cloud servers running CentOS, this is what you should use. The interface is the same as in any CentOS VPS servers available in the market. This helps to keep the OS small and robust. If you wish to run a server, this is recommended as you can selectively install any package you want such as php, apache etc.

That is, you will have to work on command line interface. This contains the core CentOS with out GUI. Minimal ISO– Download size around 1 GB.If you have bandwidth to download 10 GB, I would recommend using this ISO if you dont have have internet bandwidth issue, else DVD ISO should be good too. This contains all of CentOS including what is available in DVD ISO. Everything ISO– Download size around 10 GB.For additional packages not available by default, you will have to install them yourself using the package manager. Install this if you wish to work on CentOS for software development in desktop mode or for learning purposes. This is the desktop version with GUI and contains the standard linux packages which comes pre configured with any desktop version of the linux OS such as C, pyhon, ruby, php etc. You can download Everything ISO from the official mirror sites. There is a third option which is currently not listed on the download page, which is Everything ISO. You have 2 options listed, DVD ISO and Minimal ISO. On the official website home page, to get the installation media, you have to click Get CentOS Now.

CentOS Installation media download options: To know how to enable it, please follow my post here Windows 10 home users will have to stick to VMware Workstation pro, VMware Workstation Player or VirtualBox.īefore you can use Hyper-V, it needs to be enabled in Windows 10. Please note that Hyper-V is not a part of Windows 10 Home Edition. This is because it is readily available as a part of Windows 10 OS and integrates well with overall Windows ecosystem.

These days I have started using Hyper V which is a part of Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise editions. In this blog post I will show you how to install CentOS 7, Release 1810 in Hyper-V on Windows 10.

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