Le 11/04/2017 ? 18:11, Jonathan Billings a ?crit :> Maybe we should just jump right to the end that we always have each > time this comes up. systemd is the death of linux and you're leaving > for FreeBSD/devuan/whatever. Lets just move along now.I've been using CentOS 5.x almost exclusively for a few years on both servers and desktops, and then I went back to Slackware Linux because I liked its simplicity. Slackware is still running on most of my servers and desktops, and I even maintain a small spinoff distribution for desktops (https://www.microlinux.eu). I'm currently faced with the perspective of teaching Linux for some bigger companies (think broadcasting business). Since here in France, many big companies are running RHEL on their servers, I thought it might be a good idea to check out CentOS again. So some time ago I started fiddling with more recent versions again, and I even have a new section on my blog about CentOS: http://blog.microlinux.fr/centos/ I just read through this thread, and I must say I'm a bit worried, to the point that I'm asking myself: is CentOS still as reliable as it was? This is not a rhetorical question, but a real one. On my Slackware servers, I'm hosting a few dozen websites, various platforms for schools and public libraries, some streaming stuff, webmail, etc. and these machines *never ever* give me any headache. Can I expect the same stability from CentOS 7? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32
On 04/11/2017 10:16 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:> I just read through this thread, and I must say I'm a bit worried, to > the point that I'm asking myself: is CentOS still as reliable as it was?Yes. I've been very happy with release 7 across hundreds of servers and dozens of configurations.
On 04/11/2017 10:36 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:> On 04/11/2017 10:16 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: >> I just read through this thread, and I must say I'm a bit worried, to >> the point that I'm asking myself: is CentOS still as reliable as it was? > > > Yes. I've been very happy with release 7 across hundreds of servers and > dozens of configurations. > >Ditto that. CentOS 7 has been an amazing release for me.
> I just read through this thread, and I must say I'm a bit worried, to > the point that I'm asking myself: is CentOS still as reliable as it was?Yes.> This is not a rhetorical question, but a real one. On my Slackware > servers, I'm hosting a few dozen websites, various platforms for schools > and public libraries, some streaming stuff, webmail, etc. and these > machines *never ever* give me any headache. Can I expect the same > stability from CentOS 7? >I have a hundred or so CentOS desktops, ~10 webservers hosting many virtual sites, an LDAP infrastructure, a couple of VM servers, a number of large computational clusters, mail servers, mail relays, a Nextcloud host and so on all running on CentOS of various flavours (but mostly 7 now) and ALL of them rock solid. I don't see any of these random reboots because of systemd, it is just not something I recognise - the uptimes are usually in the months to years region. Look, CentOS is a RHEL clone, RH make money out of this and they aren't going to produce an OS that is flaky. If they did, no one would use it. P.
Le 11/04/2017 ? 19:43, Pete Biggs a ?crit :> Look, CentOS is a RHEL clone, RH make money out of this and they aren't > going to produce an OS that is flaky. If they did, no one would use it.That was my initial thought. Thanks for confirming it. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32
On Tue, April 11, 2017 12:43 pm, Pete Biggs wrote:> >> I just read through this thread, and I must say I'm a bit worried, to >> the point that I'm asking myself: is CentOS still as reliable as it was? > > Yes. > >> This is not a rhetorical question, but a real one. On my Slackware >> servers, I'm hosting a few dozen websites, various platforms for schools >> and public libraries, some streaming stuff, webmail, etc. and these >> machines *never ever* give me any headache. Can I expect the same >> stability from CentOS 7? >> > I have a hundred or so CentOS desktops, ~10 webservers hosting many > virtual sites, an LDAP infrastructure, a couple of VM servers, a number > of large computational clusters, mail servers, mail relays, a Nextcloud > host and so on all running on CentOS of various flavours (but mostly 7 > now) and ALL of them rock solid. I don't see any of these random > reboots because of systemd, it is just not something I recognise - the > uptimes are usually in the months to years region.Years uptime, wow! What do you do when security update for kernel or glibc is released? These come as often as once every 45 days in my observation. Valeri> > Look, CentOS is a RHEL clone, RH make money out of this and they aren't > going to produce an OS that is flaky. If they did, no one would use it. > > P. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++