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Any Linux will do that, or BSD. If you don't want support or patches, don't install them and silo your machine properly.
by pnutjam 6y ago
Any 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).