Thanks Stephen, that was my logic, but only every year or two. Regards On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 17:10, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 10:14, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 03:53:49PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: > > > Not all that bothered about being 'up to the minute', and after > > > 20+ Fedora installs it does get to be a drag... > > > > You should be just fine with CentOS for most cases. Check out the new > Fedora > > Toolbox command ('toolbox') — this makes it super-easy to launch and > > maintain "pet" containers using podman, and you could use this to > provide a > > Fedora working environment for when you need newer stuff. (Or conversely > > people running a Fedora OS can do the opposite with a CentOS container.) > > > > One thing I'm curious about, though -- you mention installs getting to > be a > > drag. Have you tried the update process in the last few releases? It's > > basically like applying a big set of updates, with no reinstall required. > > It is good to do re-installs regularly to avoid problems like whatever > file-system in Fedora N does not work with containers (or some other > new feature).. but the Fedora N+1 filesystem does. You can only get > that availability by reinstalling or creating a new file-system which > you put stuff into... so in many ways a fresh install is usually good > to do every 4-6 releases so that you aren't debugging 'why doesn't > this new utility work' > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ.