The reason for the small /boot is since the introduction of dracut you can now use a shockingly small kernel because the initrd is now customized to your box and less modules need to be compiled in too. That said that is a bit small but you can override it it just takes a lot of clicks.
As for gnome it's always been Red Hats favorite because they have had a heavy hand in developing it. It's never been easy to override. That said I've done it with XFCE on rhel 7 and fedora so it's not impossible. Further more if you are doing a lot of deploys you should be using kickstarts which give you far more control over the installation and guarantee consistency. What it comes down to is 7 is a new beast with a big learning curve. You need to play with it and not worry about messing it up the first few time because it will happen. Original Message From: Konstantin Olchanski Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 22:10 To: Larry Linder Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: SL 7.2 On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 10:43:52AM -0400, Larry Linder wrote: > Dear Sir: > > 6. We (everyone in the shop) unanimously hates the GENOME desk top. There > does not appear to be able to select an alternate. > Pretty cool! All my bases are belong to you! What did you use to generate this gibberish? -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
