CentOS 7

Well... My helpful and encouraging little rabbit - Many people told Einstein he wasn't ready and many people told Edison he wan't ready and he almost proved them right since he took 10,000 tries before he got it right. They told Ford he wasn't ready to be an entrepreneur and that he was basically a mindless idiot - he almost proved them right since the first horseless carriage he ever made didn't have a reverse on it and he didn't know until he ran off the road and into a log and couldn't back away.... They all said Alexander Graham Bell would lose to his opponent and not get his phone patented first... Can you actually tell me the name of the guy who actually invented the first phone several months before Bell, but didn't think anyone would be interested so he never went to the patent office?

They all had one thing in common - they were told they couldn't and they did anyway.... but thanks for your encouragement. :-)

As far as my description of CentOS it was developed as a community supported version of RHEL by some of the original designers of RHEL when the business model changed. Also I've used it for about 11 years now and I've never paid a dime for it so do you really need to pontificate on it not being a freebie?

You mentioned the very reason I like Centos 7. It doesn't have an upgrade every 6 months or less like some of the more popular Linux editions do and it's known to be very stable. However I thought I would ask in the forum because many times in many tech forums the forum members have real world experience and might know something that hasn't been upgraded in the official documentation, and may I please turn your attention to the list of Class A server OS's and class B OS's and might I point your learned attention to the list where it says CENTOS- it doesn't mention CentOS 7. As I'm sure you're aware there are a quite a few things different about version 7 from previous versions of CentOS. Which is why I spefically asked about 7 not CentOS but Centos 7.

No offense taken since I'm only wanting to run a web server for my own websites not for customers. I'm tired of hosting companies that can't find, their way out of a wet paper bag.

However, I thought this was a place for "newbies" who've never used *min software to learn and ask questions about *min products not be harassed over one's choice of wording. (One would assume that would be a deciding factor in creating a NEWBIE portion of the forum rather than inflicting their newbie questions on the more elite of the software users)

Linux purists... I find them to be somewhat along the same lines as fly-fishing purists. However I still appreciate your pointers about ipv6 and how well the software works with Centos7 and I thank you.

By the way I don't think I'm the only person to ever call CentOS 7 the freebie version of RHEL.

I'll be sure to send a special autographed screen shot of my websites successfully running on Virtualmin to you a year or two after I get them up and running just to prove you wrong. :-) Oh and by the way, just to be clear since I'm 57 - the only time I ever wish to be lectured is by a professor that I'm paying to lecture me - thank you and have a great week and enjoy your weekend.

ahh ok... CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 7 ------------

I was assuming the (7) was for Scientific Linux because I was unaware that RHEL and CentOS all ran the same version number. But not knowing that doesn't or at least shouldn't cause someone to preclude that I'm ignorant in linux or server management just because the last time I worked on an RHEL server was in 2006 and didn't know what the current version # was. Most of why I responded the way I did was to prove a point. You seem like a nice helpful person. Anyone that uses such a nice character as a rabbit can't be all bad... but not everyone would have taken that comment as graciously as me because it came across as very officious and officious is never very popular nor desirable.

Security of web management was never in question, part of my past life as a network design engineer was server security in both windows and linux- I was asking about whether or not virtualmin worked well on Centos 7 because the install video mentioned how well the product worked on Debian and the install document mentioned it was "built" around RHEL and the rest is history...There was a whole lot of worm can opening that didn't even need to be opened... I'll just leave it at that because these comments by both of us have been off target for the topic at hand which is "Help - new to Virtualmin" I'll censor myself going forward so the moderator/admin doesn't have to.