In shocking news the CentOS project announced today that are shifting their Linux distribution to be based on the beta (non-stable) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, rather than the stable branch. And that they are terminating CentOS 8 updates at the 31st of December, 2021. The CentOS project will now release something named “CentOS […]
  • @ksynwa
    4•3 years ago

    My understand is that the non stable branch can’t be too bad but if people want surity of stability I guess they’ll migrate to Debian or something.

    • @AgreeableLandscapeOPM
      12•3 years ago

      For production servers you should basically never use non-stable operating systems.

      • Halce
        1•3 years ago

        Doesn’t the change just mean it’s going to be a rolling release? As long as they push quality updates, I can’t see why it would be unstable. In fact, wouldn’t security vulnerabilities get patched sooner?

        • @AgreeableLandscapeOPM
          3•3 years ago

          I don’t know about how CentOS handled security patches for its stable releases, but Debian does backports of security updates (AFAIK there can be issues but it works fine for the important packages). The main problem is that rolling release can package conflicts and subtle issues, and depending on what branch the actual packages are on, they can be unstable or have many bugs (Nvidia drivers were the bame of my existance both when I ran Arch/Manjaro and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed). I’m not a sysadmin, but everywhere I read not to use rolling release for a production server.