On 10/8/2014 3:16 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:

Quoting Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com:

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On 10/8/2014 12:50 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:

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I would say, CentOS 6 is the best of Linuxes suitable for server (IMHO). However, I for one decided to move my servers away from Linux (as from "Unix-like" Linux gradually becomes "Windows-like" during last 5 years or so). Since some time ago I do not upgrade Linux systems on servers I maintain. Instead, when the time comes, I just migrate server from Linux to FreeBSD, which is much more suitable platform for server than Linux. Version 7 of RedHat Enterprise or CentOS is much worse than version 6 to build server on. Again, this is just my humble opinion. If I absolutely have to build server on today's latest Linux, I will choose Debian, which at least doesn't have systemd yet. But it will have it in next release...

What changes have you seen that affect using CentOS as a server? Sure, the GUI has changed over the years to be more like Windows, but most of my servers don't even have a GUI installed. I have servers running CentOS 4, 5, 6, and 7. The only differences I can think of between 4 and 7 that affect server administration are selinux and systemd. Selinux can be easily disabled if you don't want to deal with it. I don't like systemd at the moment, but that's at least partially due to only having worked with it for a couple of weeks so far. The more I use it, the more I get used to it. So far, it seems easy enough to use once you figure out the new commands and file locations.

And the RAID setup is MUCH easier and more rational, really nice to use.

Interesting. I built my CentOS 7 server with a raid 1 mirror. I found the raid setup in the installer to be confusing and very non-intuitive. I don't remember having any problems with it in previous versions.