Hello Mike,

On Tue Nov 28 2017 23:58:50, Mike Miller wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MM>>>  Based on their previous releases, probably not until 2019 or
 MM>>> 2020, at least.

 NB>> Holy crap. CentOS 7 was released in 2014??? That's way worse than
 NB>> even Debian's release timeline. I tend to prefer the latest
 NB>> stable releases of software, rather than a stable release from
 NB>> 2-3 years ago. ;)

 MM>  RedHat backports a lot of new features into packages, and there are
 MM> always repositories out there with more "updated" software. At work we
 MM> use CentOS specifically because it is stable, and well tested. If we
 MM> need newer versions of software/packages, we'll find a repository for
 MM> them, or we'll create our own.

 MM> I don't think I'd want to manage 750+ machines running Gentoo or Arch
 MM> :)

Oh no, definitely not. I'd probably go the CentOS route as well if I were
managing that much. However, for a few machines at home..  ;)

Regards,
Nick

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