[SOLVED] Can I use Fedora Documentation for Centos 7

6th_sense · 05-09-2017, 04:03 PM

Hi,

I don't know if this question has been asked here before - if so, then if you would direct me to the right place - that would work great.

I've seen a number of links that have been provided for help on Centos in general. However, I have yet to see the documentation specific to Centos 7.

I assume that since it is a derivative of fedora 19 and 20, that I could potentially look up any help I need in the fedora documentation for either of these builds.

Would that be correct?

- Raju -

notKlaatu · 05-09-2017, 04:11 PM

I would say it's a 60-40 situation. 60% of the time, you'll probably be able to get by with Fedora docs, but depending on what it is you're doing, there will be times that you'll have to adjust something to make it fit.

I would rather just use Red Hat docs: https://access.redhat.com/documentat...nux/?version=7

hydrurga · 05-09-2017, 04:14 PM

I'm not a CentOS user, but wouldn't you be better referring to the immediate upstream RHEL 7 documentation? It should mirror CentOS better than Fedora does.

https://access.redhat.com/documentat...erprise-linux/

Edit: notKlaatu beat me to it.

frankbell · 05-09-2017, 09:24 PM

I second (third?) the suggestion to start with Red Hat's publicly available documentation. Fedora is quite bleeding edge and its documentation will not reflect the current CentOS release.

jefro · 05-09-2017, 09:32 PM

My thinking on it would be that you should try to use CentOS documentation. They use almost word for word what RH has. The main difference is that RH may have parts of their distro containing things that they don't place in open source. When you can access their data it may be useful.

I'd use Scientific linux or Oracle Linux if I didn't have CentOS. There are mirrors all over the world.

However, if all else fails, you might look at Fedora in web searches but don't depend on it too much.

Worse comes to worse, ask at LQ.

hydrurga · 05-10-2017, 02:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jefro

My thinking on it would be that you should try to use CentOS documentation.

They only appear to have documentation for CentOS 2 to 5 (hence the OP's thread).

https://www.centos.org/docs/

I can only assume that they decided it was not worth the bother with documentation for 6 and 7 because the RHEL documentation is sufficient.