On Tue, May 10, 2016 2:22 pm, Hakan Peker wrote: > On 05/10/2016 06:44 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> "Other systems" you mention I bet are Debian and its clones (Ubuntu >> being >> one of them). These systems have different update philosophy than that >> of >> RedHat Enterprise Linux (and hence what CentOS is, which is derived from >> RHEL). Namely, these "other systems" do constant micro-upgrades of >> components installed on the system to latest release, whenever new >> release >> of given piece of software happens. To the contrary, RHEL mostly >> backports >> important security fixes to a version that was included in original >> system >> release (but occasionally does make upgrades). Hence the differences: >> >> 1. Debian (and clones): you keep the components of the system pretty >> much >> on the level of latest release of each of components. Therefore >> "upgrade" >> to new release of the system is pretty close to just a regular routine >> update. This apparent advantage comes with a disadvantage, namely: every >> update has a potential to break something on your machine, as new >> release >> may have different internals, then you will need to work on migration to >> them, and this can come as a surprise with any of routine updates. >> > > This is so flat out wrong that I don't know where to begin, and this is > not the place to give a lecture about Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS > release process anyway. > > Not knowing something is perfectly normal and it is nothing to be > ashamed of, spreading misinformation about a topic you have no knowledge > of and doing it in a public list *and* when nobody asked you about it, > on the other hand... Smashing! ;-) You can begin by describing what the differences are, or by making the statement that there are no differences whatsoever. Both will be helpful to everybody. Another option would be e-mail privately to list moderators and suggest to moderate an idiot (yours truly), - whoever does more damage than help does deserve to be moderated. Either of the above suggestions will be more productive than this post IMHO. Thanks. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++