In: Computer Science
Research three different distributions of Linux on the Internet.
Record where you went to obtain your information. Compare and
contrast the different distributions with regard to their strengths
and the packages available for each. After you finish, locate and
visit two Linux newsgroups. How did you locate them and where did
you obtain the information? What are the topics specific to each?
Find two questions per newsgroup posted by a user in need of a
solution to a problem, and follow the thread of responses suggested
by others to solve that problem.
Ubuntu | Arch Linux | Centos | |
Package Manager | apt, dpkg | pacman, | yum, rpm |
Developer | Canonical Ltd. | Aaron Griffin and others | The CentOS Project (affiliated with Red Hat) |
I have been using Ubuntu for past 5 years and I found it best for my use case.
It really depends on you how you want to compare them. I used wikipedia links for comparision.
And roughly saying about target users for these distros i would say:
Ubuntu : Seriously for anyone, from home users to research organizations
Arch Linux : for some serious developers who wants to customize everything they want in their distro
Centos : free version of Red Hat Linux
User Groups (googled it):
Centos: https://www.centos.org/forums/
Ubuntu: https://ubuntuforums.org
Rest is your part, If everything will be spoonfed to you, you will not learn anything. Search for problems in above usergroups.
If you will stuck somewhere, happy to help, but please atleast first try yourself.