On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 05:45:58PM -0700, david wrote: > 1: Firewall changes Remove firewalld; install iptables. Problem solved. This has been discussed ad nauseum on this list recently. > 2: Apache changes Not RedHat specific issues; that's just progress from upstream. > 3: Service -> systemd This one _is_ nasty; it means you didn't properly use upstart in RH6, but then again who did? We all stuck with standard init scripts :-) > 5) Sendmail is out, postfix is in. Only a default; sendmail is still there to install if you need it. > 7) Lack of 32-bit support > I think I understand this. After all, 32-bit machines may become > "unusable" when the clock overflows, but isn't that a few years away, You've misunderstood kernel support and "type" support. We've had 64bit filesizes for many years on 32bit kernels. Changing time_t to 64bits is independent of the hardware being 32 or 64 bit. Basically, RHEL is Enterprise (the E); very very few enterprises have 32bit machines any more. -- rgds Stephen