On 19/05/16 20:44, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote: > The upgrade in Debian is working really well. You really can > install a machine once and then you can upgrade it to the latest > OS without much issues. [...]
Agreed, Debian is great for this (which is why we're running it on our infrastructure boxes). It also doesn't tend to break things on point releases, unlike Red Hat. > This experience seems to be in stark difference from the OS upgrade on the > central cluster (RedHat) where the cluster needed to be installed from > scratch. At least that was my understanding. That's certainly true up to RHEL6, there is some ability to upgrade from RHEL6 to RHEL7 now though (never tried it). We're tied to RHEL due to hardware vendor support requirements. :-/ All the best, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
