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Why are you mentioning 7 and 16.04? Those numbers mean nothing when you compare different distributions.

by 6581 10y ago

marcoperaza 10y ago
Those are the current versions of each. The comparison is between the kernel versions, not the distro version numbers.
- 6581 10y ago
  "still at version 7" strongly implies a comparison of the distro version numbers.
  - Daviey 10y ago
    Which reminds me of 1999 when Slackware jumped from version 4 to 7, purely to keep up with competition.
  - JdeBP 10y ago
    No, it does not. It implies that one has been at a particular level for some time, whilst the other has only reached its current level recently. chrisper was very clearly not comparing the release numbers, as xe said. One only need read xyr prior comment in this very same thread where xe was talking about outdatedness of what is currently available.
- coredog64 10y ago
  Even the kernel version isn't particularly helpful, as Red Hat is backporting new features into the version shipped by RHEL 6 and 7. One specific example is the SO_REUSEPORT socket option which was added to Linux kernel 3.9, and was subsequently backported and became available since RHEL 6.5, which uses version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Kernel_backporting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Kerne...
chrisper 10y ago
I am not comparing the numbers in a mathematical way (I am not saying 16 is better than 7). I meant more like that packages get updates to next major versions when the OS jumps to the next major version. Somehow, I felt that Ubuntu releases new major versions more often than RHEL. But checking the release dates it seems that I was wrong.
- merb 10y ago
  Actually 7 is released on 2012 while 16.04 is released on 2016. You could compare 14.04 and 7 but not 16.04 and 7. Eventually you could compare CentOS 8 when it comes out this year.
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  - JdeBP 10y ago
    > Actually 7 is released on 2012 while 16.04 is released on 2016. Observe that that was chrisper's original very point.
  - sciurus 10y ago
    No, RHEL 7 was released in June 2014, not 2012. There's no sign of RHEL 8 yet either; it would be quite surprising for it to come out this year. https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078 https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078

Why are you mentioning 7 and 16.04? Those numbers mean nothing when you compare different distributions.

by 6581 10y ago

Why are you mentioning 7 and 16.04? Those numbers mean nothing when you compare different distributions.

marcoperaza 10y ago

Those are the current versions of each. The comparison is between the kernel versions, not the distro version numbers.

6581 10y ago
"still at version 7" strongly implies a comparison of the distro version numbers.
- Daviey 10y ago
  Which reminds me of 1999 when Slackware jumped from version 4 to 7, purely to keep up with competition.
- JdeBP 10y ago
  No, it does not. It implies that one has been at a particular level for some time, whilst the other has only reached its current level recently. chrisper was very clearly not comparing the release numbers, as xe said. One only need read xyr prior comment in this very same thread where xe was talking about outdatedness of what is currently available.
coredog64 10y ago
Even the kernel version isn't particularly helpful, as Red Hat is backporting new features into the version shipped by RHEL 6 and 7. One specific example is the SO_REUSEPORT socket option which was added to Linux kernel 3.9, and was subsequently backported and became available since RHEL 6.5, which uses version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Kernel_backporting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Kerne...

chrisper 10y ago

I am not comparing the numbers in a mathematical way (I am not saying 16 is better than 7). I meant more like that packages get updates to next major versions when the OS jumps to the next major version. Somehow, I felt that Ubuntu releases new major versions more often than RHEL. But checking the release dates it seems that I was wrong.

merb 10y ago
Actually 7 is released on 2012 while 16.04 is released on 2016. You could compare 14.04 and 7 but not 16.04 and 7. Eventually you could compare CentOS 8 when it comes out this year.
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- JdeBP 10y ago
  > Actually 7 is released on 2012 while 16.04 is released on 2016. Observe that that was chrisper's original very point.
- sciurus 10y ago
  No, RHEL 7 was released in June 2014, not 2012. There's no sign of RHEL 8 yet either; it would be quite surprising for it to come out this year. https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078 https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078