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This is just a case study in why using CentOS for anything is like amputating your left leg - if you're going to do it, you better have a damned good reason, an

by debacle 12y ago

This is just a case study in why using CentOS for anything is like amputating your left leg - if you're going to do it, you better have a damned good reason, and no matter how justified you are, it's still going to suck. But I don't disagree with the author's pain point. Computing is sort of way harder than it needs to be a lot of the time.

fndrplayer13 12y ago
CentOS is great if you're looking for proven stability. But yeah I've had so many moments of hair-pulling frustration dealing with incredibly outdated CentOS packages (All of them?).
serve_yay 12y ago
Yeah I'm not sure I understand the choice of OS here unless it was required for some reason.
- debacle 12y ago
  The thought process goes: Centos -> RHEL -> "Security" In the same way that Oracle is "Enterprise."
  - serve_yay 12y ago
    Ha, I see. And then muck up the "security" of your platform by putting a bunch of build tools and such on it, so you can do the thing you're actually trying to do. Rad.
- missblit 12y ago
  I have CentOS 7 installed on my desktop computer! There are dozens of us! Dozens! But I honestly don't have any major complaints. 1. Packages aren't THAT out of date (firefox is the latest ESR, gcc is 4.8) 2. Things tend to be nice and stable 3. I sometimes end up needing to compile some stuff from source even on faster moving distros anyway
  - zorked 12y ago
    That is because Centos 7 was just released. Let's talk again four years from now.
    - clarkm 12y ago
      Yeah, every time I ssh into a box and see "terminal type not supported" (screen-256color), I know its using CentOS 5.x. Which means ssh doesn't have netcat mode, rsync can't write to log files or show progress properly, and all my tmux bindings are messed up.
peterwwillis 12y ago
CentOS is not that bad, and RPM specs are way, way better than kludgy Debian packages. And anyway, if you run a business you will probably require RHEL or CentOS to get any vendor support.

by debacle 12y ago

fndrplayer13 12y ago

CentOS is great if you're looking for proven stability. But yeah I've had so many moments of hair-pulling frustration dealing with incredibly outdated CentOS packages (All of them?).

serve_yay 12y ago

Yeah I'm not sure I understand the choice of OS here unless it was required for some reason.

debacle 12y ago
The thought process goes: Centos -> RHEL -> "Security" In the same way that Oracle is "Enterprise."
- serve_yay 12y ago
  Ha, I see. And then muck up the "security" of your platform by putting a bunch of build tools and such on it, so you can do the thing you're actually trying to do. Rad.
missblit 12y ago
I have CentOS 7 installed on my desktop computer! There are dozens of us! Dozens! But I honestly don't have any major complaints. 1. Packages aren't THAT out of date (firefox is the latest ESR, gcc is 4.8) 2. Things tend to be nice and stable 3. I sometimes end up needing to compile some stuff from source even on faster moving distros anyway
- zorked 12y ago
  That is because Centos 7 was just released. Let's talk again four years from now.
  - clarkm 12y ago
    Yeah, every time I ssh into a box and see "terminal type not supported" (screen-256color), I know its using CentOS 5.x. Which means ssh doesn't have netcat mode, rsync can't write to log files or show progress properly, and all my tmux bindings are messed up.

peterwwillis 12y ago

CentOS is not that bad, and RPM specs are way, way better than kludgy Debian packages. And anyway, if you run a business you will probably require RHEL or CentOS to get any vendor support.