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RedHat claims or at least claimed that for EL. I think it’s limited to within minor releases though, with majors being API. That’s fine if you’re OK relying o
by salmo 4y ago
RedHat claims or at least claimed that for EL. I think it’s limited to within minor releases though, with majors being API.
That’s fine if you’re OK relying on their packages and 3rd party “enterprise” software that’s “certified” for the release. No one in their right mind would run RHEL on a desktop.
The most annoying to me was that RHEL6 was still under support and had an ancient kernel that excluded running Go, GRaalVM, etc. static binaries. No epoll() IIRC.
Often times you find yourself having to pull more and more libraries into a build. It all starts with wanting a current Python and before you know it you’re bringing in your own OpenSSL.
And they have no problem changing their system management software in patch releases. They’ve changed priority of config files too many times. But that’s another rant for another day.
This is a place where I wish some BSD won out. With all the chunks of the base userspace + kernel each moving in their own direction it’s impossible to get out of this place. Then add in every permutation of those pieces from the distros.
Multiple kernel versions * multiple libc implementations * multiple inits * …
I’d never try to make binary-only software for Linux. Dealing with packaging OSS is bad enough.
- twic 4y ago> No one in their right mind would run RHEL on a desktop. I worked somewhere where we ran CentOS on the desktop. That seemed to work pretty well. I don't see why RHEL would be any worse, apart from being more expensive.
- _muff1nman_ 4y agoI ran CentOS on the desktop for many years. It was a very nice, solid setup that I could rely on updating without sweating about an upgrade breaking something. I've recently switched to fedora in light of recent CentOS 8 shenanigans but CentOS 7 was wonderful at the time.
- galangalalgol 4y agoWhat did centos 8 do?
- hxtk 4y agoIt ceased to exist. Redhat stopped supporting the version that was equivalent to RHEL8 and kept CentOS stream for developers targeting RHEL 8 to use. This came with some changes to open up the developer license program for RHEL so that it could be used for small scale production workloads. The big problem was that the latter was only hinted at by the time the CentOS EOL was announced and didn't get spelled out in precise language for a few more months, which led to a lot of very angry sysadmins who had been using CentOS in production franticly searching for a new platform in the meantime.
- mroche 4y agoI believe GP is referring to the early termination of CentOS Linux 8 at the end of 2021 rather than matching RHEL 8 to 2029. Red Hat reallocated resources to CentOS Stream for 8+, which EOLs at the end of their respective RHEL major release's Full Support phase (the first 5/5.5 years). As a result, new rebuild distributions spun up to fill in CentOS Linux's role in the ecosystem as bug-for-bug clones. CentOS Linux 7 is and will still be maintained until the mid-2024 EOL of RHEL 7.
- School-Cotton 4y agoI ran RHEL (IIRC it was RHEL 6) on my desktop at Amazon from 2013 to 2015, as did all SDEs.
- yellowapple 4y ago> No one in their right mind would run RHEL on a desktop. glances nervously at my corporate-issued ThinkPad running RHEL 8
- bandrami 4y ago> No one in their right mind would run RHEL on a desktop. Err.... yes we do? It's a development base I know isn't going to change for a long time, and I can always flatpak whatever applications I need. Hell, now that RHEL 9 includes pipewire I put it on my DAW/DJ laptop.