On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:41 AM Kent Perrier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > 1. I've been managing Linux (cloud) servers for more than 15 years with Ubuntu. Never had a problem. 2. 99.999 percent of us don't maintain "hundreds to thousands of servers". 3. I still maintain the Ubuntu servers are more up-to-date and therefore are more likely to be reliable and secure. 4. I've had problems with Red Hat software when their OS has software in the base OS that is more than 5 years old! --blake > > 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 I tried CentOS and Red Hat in the past and found them to be out-of-date 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC9jd8DU7FqbfNiFf_o2p%2BAzrYXxhZ6LTk1%2BxoO%3Dg-N1rA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- 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/CABwHSOtWefmS3r1NOV5MQr9NQ27TvsHNac02Qb%2BZ4tqH-Sk%3D%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com.
