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Debian Stable might be more analogous to CentOS, but they don't do major feature backports like RHEL does, so I find stable is often much too old by the time it
by linuxftw 6y ago
Debian Stable might be more analogous to CentOS, but they don't do major feature backports like RHEL does, so I find stable is often much too old by the time it's actually released.
- marcosdumay 6y agoTake a look in buster-updates (or any X-updates for older ones). I guess there are only so many ways to organize a distro.
- kijin 6y agoOn the other hand, CentOS systems tend to last much longer due to the 10-year support cycle. So I often encounter wild specimens that are even older than Debian oldstable. Right now, I've got a bunch of CentOS 6 servers with 2.6.32 kernels that are freshly out of support this month. I was hoping to replace them with 8, but now I'll probably have to settle for 7. At least I can take consolation in the fact that I haven't been called in to troubleshoot any CentOS 5 servers lately.
- pmlnr 6y agoThere's always a backports repository for the stable release in Debian: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free