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> and everything in RHEL/CentOS is old This is the whole reason why people use CentOS and Debian as server side old stable and most importantly security patch.

> and everything in RHEL/CentOS is old This is the whole reason why people use CentOS and Debian as server side old stable and most importantly security patch. if you need your dev stack as newest version just installed it on the old stable OS base so you can worry only on your dev stack.

dharmab 5y ago
Speaking as an ex-platform engineer, we needed to be on much newer kernel versions to leverage ebpf and other modern features
- chasil 5y ago
  The Oracle UEK wasn't an option?
  - dharmab 5y ago
    Oracle was never an option.
    - chasil 5y ago
      I kinda dragged Oracle's UEK over the coals for xxhash. That was a red herring. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/btrfs-centos-living-loopback https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/btrfs-centos-living-loo...
darkr 5y ago
> CentOS and Debian as server side old stable and most importantly security patch Historically, CentOS has been very slow to release security patches, compared to upstream (RHEL). And for anything non-critical (but still often high) Debian stable tends to receive fixes a lot later than unstable, and sometimes never due to need to backport.