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by yebyen 2345 days ago
I'm not sure that migrating to systemd is as hard as you think, I've done it on my Debian release train, and I've also done it with Ubuntu, after migrating from Sys-V to Upstart, no less even...

It's actually standard policy from what I understand on the distros that are in the RHEL family, that upgrades between major version of releases are officially not supported.

So, Fedora is nice, but if you're using RHEL, be prepared to rebuild everything from scratch every 2-3 years, I guess?

The same is true for Amazon Linux -> Amazon Linux 2.
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vetinari 2344 days ago
They are, but there are some requirements to be fulfilled.

For 7.6 -> 8, see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp....

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yebyen 2343 days ago
Thank you! I assume there are requirements to fulfill for the other distros which support it as well but they are probably not as well documented.

One thing which RedHat has always impressed me with is the quality of their documentation.

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