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by freehunter 4362 days ago
Is there something notable about this beyond just a new version?
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geerlingguy 4362 days ago
RHEL 7 was released on June 10[1], but many people (myself included) don't have a RedHat subscription and run CentOS, the 'community' edition of RedHat.

Up until today, CentOS 6.5 was the latest release... so I can start using CentOS 7 now and enjoy the benefits that RedHat introduced in RHEL 7. You can see that the delay before CentOS releases a community version of RHEL has been much improved in recent years in this Wikipedia chart[2].

Also, iirc, this is the first major CentOS release with the CentOS project more or less under RedHat's wing[3].

[1] http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-ha...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#Versioning_and_releases

[3] http://www.infoworld.com/t/linux/red-hat-stamps-its-influenc...

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loudmax 4362 days ago
CentOS/RHEL 7 uses systemd. That's a notable change. Also, LXC and docker should work out of the box. And xfs now instead of ext4 by default.

Release notes: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7

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facorreia 4362 days ago
For a description of new features see:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...

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stock_toaster 4362 days ago
Major changes: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7#head-b02...
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