Oh, boy. Now I have to rant on Linux and RedHat after being so happy with them for much longer than a decade. OK, the first thing I have to admit: I'm ignorant person. Please teach something...
Now questions:
1. How often do you reboot your Linux servers? (every about 45 days there is either kernel or glibc update. I remember somewhere about RedHat 5 - RedHat 7 machines having uptime about 2 years)
2. All major Linux distributions either have switched to systemd or plan to do so in next release... I prefer system V init. I don't like something big handling everything when there is no reason to.
And the list can go on...
But there are changes I really like (to keep the balance...). Such as switching to XFS as to default fs! And BTW, I was extremely happy I went with RedHat/CentOS when my debian friend sysadmin was re-creating all keys and certificates (and rebuilding systems) after known random number generator flop debian had...
So, please, teach me something: how do I build enterprise level server based CentOS 7 which I'll be able to run 1-2 years without reboot (I did apologize already for being ignorant person ;-)
Thanks. Valeri
On Wed, July 30, 2014 2:13 pm, Always Learning wrote:
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 09:07 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
..... And even though I'm using CentOS on all workstations in the
Department and on several older servers (introduction and philosophy of RHEL 7 made it clear that new servers will definitely be not CentOS 7, -
FreeBSD most likely), ....
May I ask why your servers are leaving the Red Hat environment?
Thank you.
-- Regards,
Paul. England, EU.
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