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.