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I'm using arch, currently and it looks rock solid aswell, even that it is really really bleeding edge

• Alupis 11y ago
  The definition of "stable" is different between something like Arch and CentOS (and even Fedora). When it comes to "bleeding edge" distros, stability might mean, "it doesn't crash". When it coems to stability for an enterprise/server focused distro like RHEL/CentOS, it not only means "it doesn't crash", but that package versions stay similar, major configs don't change, etc... so you scripts you write today will work on that system 3 years from now, no update will change some dependency you relied on, etc.
  • merb 11y ago
    However mostly configs doesn't need to change even on bleeding edge, only major upgrades to gnome like gnome2 to gnome3 broke something, however that doesn't happen too often. Also I was on CentOS a long time ago, even on servers, but it isn't good for projects with a dependency hell, i.e. when the project has some dependencies on newer operating system libs.