[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-7 on x86_64

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Mon Jul 7 21:04:52 UTC 2014


Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 07/07/2014 04:53 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 07.07.2014 22:48, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>>> On 07/07/2014 04:28 PM, Jeremy Hoel wrote:
>>>> It's derived from Redhat 7,.. CentOS is always derived from Redhat
>>>> Enterprise Linux.  Fedora is normally a preview of the next upcoming
>>>> RHEL release.
>>> Until recently, RHEL really lagged behind Fedora.  With RHEL 7, they
>>> seemed to have taken on walking the talk and being as current as
>>> possible (F19 was the current release when RHEL7 development seemed to
>>> have started).  It is great that this leap forward was made.  Of course
>>> has the 'service' command been replaced with 'systemd'?  That will be a
>>> big shock to Centos admins
>> what shock?
>>
>> systemd was introduced in Fedora 15

Wasn't there an upstart somewhere?

>> current is Fedora 20
>> most distributions switched to systemd
>> so there is nothing new
>
> And thus it is not in RHEL 6.  If an admin has not been working with
> Fedora, then there is no experience with it.  Plus it was easy to ignore
> systemctl in Fedora for a while, though by F18 it was hard to say the
> least.
>>
>> nobody forces you to upgrade to RHEL7
>> RHEL6 is maintained for many years
>>
>> any Fedora release contains a wrapper for "service"
>> as well as RHEL7 does
>
> Yes the wrapper is there, but at least on Fedora, I notice that related
> items like chkconfig no longer worked as well, and I really needed to
> buckle down and learn systemctl.

I think I'll write an alias for chkconfig to systemctl. *bleah* As far as
I'm concerned, it was a solution to something that wasn't a problem, just
like this urge to make config files xml.

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