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There aren't too many choices if you need to deploy something important in the most boring, reliable and maintainable fashion. I'm not a "fan" of CentOS like I
by AHTERIX5000 6y ago
There aren't too many choices if you need to deploy something important in the most boring, reliable and maintainable fashion.
I'm not a "fan" of CentOS like I'm not a fan of Toyota Hilux vehicles but both have their merits.
- mikece 6y agoYou make the comparison to the Hilux... and there are some HUGE fans of the Hilux specifically because it is extraordinarily reliable. Makes me wonder why there isn't a well known "boring, reliable" distro of Debian[1]... would Toyota mind if "Debian Hilux" were to come into being? [1] I'm fairly certain there are distros derived from Debian which could be a "Hilux distro" but they aren't well-known to me.
- peebz 6y agoIsn't Debian Stable the Hilux distro?
- mikece 6y agoAre there LTS releases supported as long as CentOS? (That's not rhetorical -- I honestly don't know.)
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoNo, RHEL/CentOS aim for an absurd 10-year lifecycle, whereas Debian, even with LTS, is aiming for 5 years. Compare https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos and https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/debian https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/debian for exact figures.