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I actually laughed out loud. Try upgrading CentOS to Rocky vs FreeBSD 11 to 15 ( that's FOUR major versions from 2017 I think ), and tell me again how good it i

• irishcoffee 7mo ago
  > I actually laughed out loud. Try upgrading CentOS to Rocky vs FreeBSD 11 to 15 ( that's FOUR major versions from 2017 I think ), and tell me again how good it is. I laughed out loud, there is no in-place upgrade mechanism for that in those distros and never has been, that is the nature of those distros. They release patch/security updates until they go EOL, which is measured in units closer to decades than years. I don’t have a problem with BSDs. That’s cool you like upgrading in place. The best and most laugh-inducing part of your whole point is that centos now not only allows you to do in-place upgrades, that’s the whole fucking point.
  • gtech1 7mo ago
    So then what's the point of mentioning Rocky as CentOS's successor ? In what way is it 'succeeding' ? That you can do a fresh install of Rocky ? And those stuck on CentOS can't upgrade ? Really useful those decades of support if your distro goes belly up
    • irishcoffee 7mo ago
      You don’t know this ecosystem, clearly. I’m not going to explain it to you much more than I did. Centos was the free version of red hat. Like redhat, centos never fucking ever offered in-place upgrades. Centos moved to stream as a sandbox for redhat, and rocky took over as the free redhat. Ask an LLM or something, this level of ignorance is unbecoming.
      • gtech1 7mo ago
        And knowing all this you still can't see what the use case might be for BSD ?
        • irishcoffee 7mo ago
          > And knowing all this you still can't see what the use case might be for BSD ? When did I ever suggest anything that would give you that idea?
          • gtech1 7mo ago
            So what's your point then ? That these are toy/homelab distros ? If so, then we are in agreement
            • irishcoffee 7mo ago
              You should go re-read this. All I said was I hated ubuntu. I don't even know what paradigm you're inquiring from at this point, and I have no clue how to answer your question. We were never in agreement or disagreement. You've been arguing against a stance I don't have. BSDs are cool. They pushed the OS ball forward on server/home computing, video game consoles, etc. Linux is also cool, they pushed the OS ball forward on server/home computing, video game consoles, etc. There is a long and storied history of computer operating systems. This conversation has shown me you're not aware of said history. You should go learn yourself up some.
              • gtech1 7mo ago
                You actually said Rocky was a successor to CentOS as well, which is what I responded to. As someone that tried to upgrade CentOS to Rocky, I can tell you that it may succeed it in name only, if that's what you meant. Physically you have to start over. If you re-read my first reply, I said as much originally.
                • irishcoffee 7mo ago
                  I give up, I'm either talking to a bot or a wall.