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The goal of CentOS, back when I used it, was to provide a bedrock-solid OS and package repository. CentOS machines would run for months or years without manual
by falcolas 6y ago
The goal of CentOS, back when I used it, was to provide a bedrock-solid OS and package repository. CentOS machines would run for months or years without manual intervention.
That's as far from "innovation" as you can get - and that was the point. We didn't want the bleeding edge. We wanted the spine of the blade upon which to build our bleeding edge software.
- pnutjam 6y agoAny Linux will do that, or BSD. If you don't want support or patches, don't install them and silo your machine properly.
- garmaine 6y agoCentOS had patches. It just wasn’t a rolling release.
- pnutjam 6y agoSame with OpenSuse LEAP, Ubuntu, or Debian.
- falcolas 6y agoThe stability is, simply, not the same between them. CentOS remained on tried and tested releases for multiple years, backporting security fixes - though not features - for software. It kept the number of bugs you'd find in the software low and well known. Let's say, Nginx. On Debian, you might be running "buster", their stable release, and running nginx 1.18-1.19. On CentOS, you'd be running on nginx 1.14. This means that you're missing features, but the versions you're running are about as bulletproof as software gets, and (were) still receiving security updates. Newer versions are available, but usually from the developers directly; the official repos always held much older, stable versions. When they offered "Decades of Support", they meant it (well, they used to mean it).