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Same with OpenSuse LEAP, Ubuntu, or Debian.

• falcolas 6y ago
  The 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).
  • garmaine 6y ago
    It’s akin to Ubuntu LTS or Debian stable.
  • pnutjam 6y ago
    I know, I work in RH. I hate being stuck with ancient packages. It's over conservative and causes all sorts of other issues with audits. Just trust us, we backported that...