On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:37 AM Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the benefits of using Red Hat is that they guarantee that the > ABI will be stable for a number of years (about 10). If you're a > small business, and you can't afford a lot of time to be fixing > software, especially when breakage comes in security updates (and we > really, really want people to apply security updates), then having a > stable ABI is beneficial. > > If you're a hobbyist, or you're in the business of IT support, these > aren't really critical, and it's part of the learning experience to > find that something is broken and learning how to fix it. If you have hundreds to thousands of servers to maintain, you don't scale very well when they break during a patching cycle. So the long term stability of RHEL is very appealing. If you are working in a small shop and your employer can absorb the downtime (and not hold you responsible for it) caused by patching gone wrong then going with a distribution that has an increased "churn" is fine. I tried CentOS and Red Hat in the past and found them to be out-of-date and > no easier or more reliable than my choices. > Take a look at RHEL8. That has changed with the application streams. RHEL8 isn't stuck at the version of httpd/postgres/whatever that was current at the time of release. Kent -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC9jd8DU7FqbfNiFf_o2p%2BAzrYXxhZ6LTk1%2BxoO%3Dg-N1rA%40mail.gmail.com.
