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The other big difference is in regards to upgrades - I've upgraded Debian servers in-place for years. Even in the announcement this post links to the upgrade i

The other big difference is in regards to upgrades - I've upgraded Debian servers in-place for years. Even in the announcement this post links to the upgrade instructions are "reinstall". The differences in packaging systems, and similar are largely something you can learn about. But the idea of reinstalling to upgrade has always struck me as something I'd rather avoid.

sliverstorm 14y ago
Note that "reinstall" is for CentOS 4 or 5; sub-versions of CentOS 6 are supposed to upgrade seamlessly.
- ishbits 14y ago
  And they do upgrade seamlessly. That is 6.1 to 6.x and so on. Not 5 to 6.
- ishbits 14y ago
  And they do upgrade seamlessly. That is 6.1 to 6.x and so on. Not 5 to 6.
mhurron 14y ago
> Even in the announcement this post links to the upgrade instructions are "reinstall" That's because that is the safest course of action. You can upgrade between major versions, and instructions on how to are given. The long term support model of RHEL lends itself more to a decom and migrate OS upgrade schedule instead of follow the latest version.