@AlexDeGruven said:
Not sure where you got this info, but CentOS 7 was released within a couple of weeks of RHEL 7.
Also, CentOS is owned by RedHat at this point and has never been 5 years behind RedHat at any point in the project's history. RedHat (and by extension, CentOS), however, is typically a few years behind the bleeding edge of Linux development. This is intentional though as they strive to provide a stable and secure platform for servers, not a bleeding edge desktop release.
on August 1st, EDX's 'intro to linux' class (made by the guys at the Linux Foundation) began. It's very simplistic, assumes you know very little about the OS (although it makes some jumps that would be harder for new folks in certain areas), and walks you through basics of installing and using three different linux OSs (ubuntu is one of them). I registered with EDX just to check it out - you never know when there's something brilliantly elementary that you just never learned - and it may be a very useful resource for you.
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Not sure where you got this info, but CentOS 7 was released within a couple of weeks of RHEL 7.
Also, CentOS is owned by RedHat at this point and has never been 5 years behind RedHat at any point in the project's history. RedHat (and by extension, CentOS), however, is typically a few years behind the bleeding edge of Linux development. This is intentional though as they strive to provide a stable and secure platform for servers, not a bleeding edge desktop release.
on August 1st, EDX's 'intro to linux' class (made by the guys at the Linux Foundation) began. It's very simplistic, assumes you know very little about the OS (although it makes some jumps that would be harder for new folks in certain areas), and walks you through basics of installing and using three different linux OSs (ubuntu is one of them). I registered with EDX just to check it out - you never know when there's something brilliantly elementary that you just never learned - and it may be a very useful resource for you.
https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introduction-1621#.U-Eny_ldWA8
Thanks @Myrmidon, I'm now registered to audit like half-a-dozen courses...