My first attempt using this distribution and the first release after being absorbed by Red Hat.
Key Features
Up to 10 years of Security Updates
Gnome 3.8.4 (with a classic inspired panel)
Hardware support updates every 6 months
Intended to be used as a Community Enterprise Distribution where stability is more important than having the latest technologies.
My at a glance opinion is that CentOS is positioned well between Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS for the packages it offers.
Like Fedora only free software is offered upon installation and as of right now there is no non free repositories available but they’ll show up pretty soon.
I’m going to kick the tires on this one for a few days and see if it’s something I can enjoy using for an extended period of time. As I have Three hard drives on my system I enjoy having a stable distribution on the 1TB drive for my long term storage a testing mechanical drive for distro hopping and the SSD holds my daily use distribution.