[CentOS] Are linux distros redundant?

[Jonathan Billings]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 07:35:53AM -0400, mark wrote:
> On 04/25/19 04:36, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 April 2019 17:22:13 John R. Dennison wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 10:18:40AM -0400, mark wrote:
> > > > Nope. Well... actually, my manager's talking about Ubuntu or maybe even
> > > > FreeBSD. He's *extremely* upset with RH being so slow - 8 should have
> > > > been out for some time, for one, and a lot of 7, even with SCL, is far
> > > > behind,
> > > 
> > > It should have been?  Says who?
> > 
> > I may only be guessing, but maybe he was referring to the age of C7. There is
> > no doubt that C7 is now VERY old software wise.  I've just gone through
> > building a new web server, and have had to use a lot of external repositories
> > in order to pull in even reasonably new Postgresql / Apache / PHP etc.
> 
> Got it in one - that's exactly why he thinks it should have been out before.

Perhaps you've never seen the Software Collections repositories?
https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL

For what its worth, RHEL8 (and subsequently, CentOS8) will have
Application Streams, which will be somewhat like SCLs, except they'll
be more core to the OS.  That'll let you update software like python,
perl, apache httpd, etc. without interferring with the OS.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/15/rhel8-introducing-appstreams/

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>