On 10/10/2014 11:44 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > Keep in mind CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL so any resources for RHEL are > applicable to CentOS. > > I'm not sure if any EL7 books have been written yet (as it's fairly new and > the Red Hat certifications have only just started being updated). > > In the meanwhile one of the best resources is access.redhat.com ... read > the documentation there. it's very difficult to find up-to-date books on the subject, but yes, the docs on https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/ are so far really good. it's all just very confusing for someone without Linux experience. all the docs/tutorials/examples out there are for previous versions so they are all out of date now that RHEL/CentOS 7 uses systemd. also, the relationship between the OS, Gnome, and KDE is confusing. I installed CentOS 7 with GUI so I have Gnome 3.8.4 which I expected, but how come I have KDE stuff there as well? and... I still haven't figured out how to add shortcuts to the desktop and/or task bar which should really be a context menu option so I'm not sure why Gnome is so un-intuitive in that case. Igal