Subj : For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To : DaiTengu
From : Accession
Date : Sat Jun 08 2024 07:52 am
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 01:14:34 -0500, you wrote:
D> Yeah, basically. The rage over it is from enterprise customers.
D> CentOS stood for "Community Enterprise Operating System". It's entire
D> focus was around stability, and moving upstream of RHEL potentially
D> reduces some of that stability.
All of this is has been a worry for XCP-ng users as well, apparantly. I had installed it on Virtualbox to test it out recently, and had read a lot of articles where the developers were swearing up and down that while they were using some upstream CentOS stuff, they were still basically running their own OS, and could pick and choose what went into their updates to keep it stable. However, I'm sure it still kept (and is keeping) current and possible future users of it on their toes.
D> That doesn't mean things can't be upgraded. There are many official,
D> and even more unofficial repositories that install newer versions of
D> programs, but users potentially sacrifice stability when that's done.
"Stability" has come a LONG way in the last, say 10 years, though. Even rolling distributions are doing more behind the scenes testing before pushing things through. At least that seems to be my experience with Arch. As I said before, I've been live updating my server, rebooting into a new kernel, etc. whenever I feel like it since I re-installed it in 2017. Speaking of which, looks like linux-6.9.3.arch1-1 is out, so time for another. :)
There may have been a couple times over those years, where after updates there would be a note saying something didn't work with some version of something else, so I had to head to the forums and figure out what to do to undo it (which wasn't a big deal at all). Then keep an eye out and/or wait like a week for the fix to be pushed, and re-update. Never had any breakage or downtime, though.
Definitely had *way* more breakage and downtime with Gentoo, but that was probably 10-15 years ago. It has probably gotten a lot better since then. However, my Gentoo days are over. I'd rather spend my free time working on the BBS stuff, or testing new packages, etc.. than battle my OS for some time to do all that.
Regards,
Nick
... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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