CentOS 6.4 (x86_64) - Release Media
CentOS.org | 6.4 - 2013-03-09Linux/Unix, CentOS 6.4 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Marketplace restrictions
Love CentOS, but this is just crap.
Because of Marketplace restrictions, you cannot rescue this image by attaching the root volume to another VM.
Better use one of the community CentOS images instead.
Wish CentOS.org would provide this image as a community image instead, so we don't have to rely on third party images.
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the best
In my opinion this is the best enterprise distro, totally free and very efficient.
This build is for a production environment, this means that
it brings just the necessary and more common libs, in order to let you install what you want and nothing more!
Very satisfied.
Good solid release of a Linux server that gives you all the pros of RHEL without the lockdown and lockin of RHEL
CentOS is a great release for building various kinds of Linux servers if you are comfortable with using and deploying RPM-based Linux. I am also a huge fan of Ubuntu Servers, so I am very well aware of the choices out there in Debian-land. CentOS should really be your only other choice outside of Debian-based distros. Even Solaris11 is not as easy to administer as CentOS.
Be sure to choose the "minimal" release which contains only 200 packages, so it comes ready to be morphed into different kinds of roles easily. Add the EPEL repo to this Linux as soon as it's up and running and you get access to an even wider array of RPMs than the default CentOS repos, finding even more ready to install packages as easy as "yum install package". RPM-packaging has been improved dramatically in the 6.x releases, especially if you want to roll your own packages using rpm tools.
Puppet Enterprise runs great on this release as well and there are a lot of Puppet modules already available to help you get your server profiled into what you want it to do. I have yet to see this version of Linux fall short of being able to be built up into what you want for a Linux machine. It runs great on AWS's micro or any other server with a really sweet, small footprint.
The added benefit of being able to stay up-to-date and not having to incur RHEL Licensing woes but still be "RHEL compatible" means never having to say you're sorry you left RHEL.
RHEL also makes it impossible to jump from one major version to another, such as in updating from 5.x to 6.x, there is no upgrade path, you either re-image your machine or stay stuck in the past. CentOS is just one constant pleasure to work with and doesn't have these issues.
I highly recommend this release of Linux if you want a really rock-solid release of Linux for servers.
CentOS forever!
I like this OS. Always use it. Very convenient, simple and easy to setup. Cannot tell much bout it. Just highly recommend it to others.
Totally satisfied
I have not been using this installation for long by now but I can already say that I am happy with it.
It comes with a minimum set of istalled software which is very good so you just add only something that you need.
The only problem I faced is that opposite to RHEL when I increased root storage size (EBS) during start-up process it didn't increase the partition size automatically so I had to run resize2fs /dev/... (but it took me 5 minutes to Google it).