On 10/8/2014 3:16 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > Quoting Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>: > >> On 10/8/2014 12:50 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> >>> 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. -- Bowie