CentOS 7
CentOS 7 Updates
The CentOS Project is happy to announce the availability of CentOS 7 (1503). This release includes a number of new features including a major update to IPA, which adds support for two-factor authentication. Other enhancements include the addition of OpenJDK 8, the return of Thunderbird, and improved container support.We’re also expanding the availability of CentOS images across a number of vendors, providing official images for Amazon, Google, and more. For self-hosted cloud, we also provide a generic cloud-init enabled image.
For more information about updates and improvements in CentOS 7, please check out the release notes or the release announcement in the mailing list archive.
https://www.centos.org/
I have been using CentOS over the last few years now and I really like it. Secure, no snooping on my privacy and no license bs. Just download the .iso image and burn it to a dvd disk then install. This has an update system similar to winders.. There is also an extensive community for any help needed. Best part, CentOS is free!
~Freewill
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There is also Linux Mint and various forms of Ubuntu. Linux is free to use. It is far more secure than anything MS, APL or pretty much any other closed source Os's simply due to the fact that anyone can look at the code. Some will say that since it is open source and anyone can look at the code that anyone can change it and add snoopers, trackers and etc. This is fully true, however. . . everyone can look at the code so those who know, can find and report or remove the devious software. Try that with MS or APL.
I have been running linux on my systems for years and with the advances in the development, it is getting to the point where anyone who can install Win***s can install one of the flavors of linux.
I suggest trying several distrbutions to see which you prefer. Myself, I much prefer the Debian based (deb) distributions over the RedHat (rpm) based distros. Ubuntu (many flavors), Mint, Debian are examples of Debian based. RedHat, Whitebox, Mandriva, CentOS, Fedora are examples of RedHat (RPM) distributions.
One of the things I like is that it has incredible hardware support with very few things requiring additional drivers or etc to work. I have installed it on some units that I thought sure would have trouble but they just worked.
Give it a try. I think you will agree that it is ready for prime time.
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