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by ams6110 3737 days ago
CentOS has let you do that for a long time.

The whole point of RH/CentOS is it's the distro for people who specifically do NOT want a lot of churn in software versions.

I install RHEL on production servers because I'm much more confident I can run "yum update" and nothing will break.
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CraigJPerry 3737 days ago
>> The whole point of RH/CentOS is it's the distro for people who specifically do NOT want a lot of churn in software versions

With collections they're pretty reasonable at letting you join the churn train if that's what you need.

I'd peg them as a purveyor of more thoughtful implementations. E.g. one example would be docker - rh implemented it from the get go with MAC. I think the others are catching up now, I believe apparmour profiles are present on modern Ubuntu around docker.

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wanda 3737 days ago 

    I install RHEL on production
    servers because I'm much
    more confident I can run
    "yum update" and
    nothing will break.
Similar rationale for my using FreeBSD.
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lukaslalinsky 3736 days ago
Excluding ports, right? Those break pretty often.
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EwanToo 3737 days ago
CentOS still doesn't do really basic cloud things, like quickly provide official AWS AMI imagines when they do a major release.
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rwmj 3737 days ago
Er what? The CentOS 7.2 cloud image was released 3 days after the DVD. Amazon doesn't seem to record when the AMI was uploaded, but previously it happened at the same time as the cloud images were announced.
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