On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 01:14:34 -0500, you wrote:
D> Yeah, basically. The rage over it is from enterprise customers.
D> CentOS stood for "Community Enterprise Operating System". It's entire focus
D> was around stability, and moving upstream of RHEL potentially
D> reduces some of that stability.
All of this is has been a worry for XCP-ng users as well, apparantly. I had
installed it on Virtualbox to test it out recently, and had read a lot of
articles where the developers were swearing up and down that while they were
using some upstream CentOS stuff, they were still basically running their own
OS, and could pick and choose what went into their updates to keep it stable.
However, I'm sure it still kept (and is keeping) current and possible future
users of it on their toes.
D> That doesn't mean things can't be upgraded. There are many official,
D> and even more unofficial repositories that install newer versions of
D> programs, but users potentially sacrifice stability when that's done.
"Stability" has come a LONG way in the last, say 10 years, though. Even rolling
distributions are doing more behind the scenes testing before pushing things
through. At least that seems to be my experience with Arch. As I said before,
I've been live updating my server, rebooting into a new kernel, etc. whenever I
feel like it since I re-installed it in 2017. Speaking of which, looks like
linux-6.9.3.arch1-1 is out, so time for another. :)
There may have been a couple times over those years, where after updates there
would be a note saying something didn't work with some version of something
else, so I had to head to the forums and figure out what to do to undo it (which
wasn't a big deal at all). Then keep an eye out and/or wait like a week for the
fix to be pushed, and re-update. Never had any breakage or downtime, though.
Definitely had *way* more breakage and downtime with Gentoo, but that was
probably 10-15 years ago. It has probably gotten a lot better since then.
However, my Gentoo days are over. I'd rather spend my free time working on the
BBS stuff, or testing new packages, etc.. than battle my OS for some time to do
all that.
Regards,
Nick
... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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