Comment by irishcoffee

18 hours ago

Centos didn’t go away. It changed. Rocky (et. al.) took the old centos role, and I see this as a win/win for everybody.

Ubuntu is the disaster Linux distro, I won’t touch Ubuntu if I have any other option.

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gtech1  17 hours ago

I actually laughed out loud. Try upgrading CentOS to Rocky vs FreeBSD 11 to 15 ( that's FOUR major versions from 2017 I think ), and tell me again how good it is.

In LTS environments where I need to upgrade OS's, FreeBSD is a no-brainer.

  • irishcoffee  16 hours ago

    > I actually laughed out loud. Try upgrading CentOS to Rocky vs FreeBSD 11 to 15 ( that's FOUR major versions from 2017 I think ), and tell me again how good it is.

    I laughed out loud, there is no in-place upgrade mechanism for that in those distros and never has been, that is the nature of those distros. They release patch/security updates until they go EOL, which is measured in units closer to decades than years.

    I don’t have a problem with BSDs. That’s cool you like upgrading in place.

    The best and most laugh-inducing part of your whole point is that centos now not only allows you to do in-place upgrades, that’s the whole fucking point.

    • gtech1  15 hours ago

      So then what's the point of mentioning Rocky as CentOS's successor ? In what way is it 'succeeding' ? That you can do a fresh install of Rocky ? And those stuck on CentOS can't upgrade ? Really useful those decades of support if your distro goes belly up

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