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On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:05:02 -0500 Mark LaPierre wrote: > The main reason I'm still using, nearly obsolete, CentOS 6 is because I > don't want to have to deal with Gnome 3. Install Mate on Centos 7 and you never have to touch Gnome 3. I did, and my desktops don't look or work any different today than they did under Centos 6. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~

...l the - erm - > improvements in 7. Maybe it's time to fork CentOS 6 and make it look and > behave like 7 without systemd (or even better, with some way of > selecting the init methodology at install-time and afterwards), and with > gnome2 (or a clear choice between 2 and 3). Call it DeCentOS. > > I'm still on 6.7 and have no plans to upgrade my 20+ servers running it. KVM runs fine, all my services runs fine. Everything is stable, fast enough and I can find my way around a CentOS 6.x system like the palm of my hand. I tried installing CentOS 7 when it was released with...

...luctance to enjoy all the - erm - improvements in 7. Maybe it's time to fork CentOS 6 and make it look and behave like 7 without systemd (or even better, with some way of selecting the init methodology at install-time and afterwards), and with gnome2 (or a clear choice between 2 and 3). Call it DeCentOS.

...l the - erm - improvements in 7. Maybe it's time to fork > CentOS 6 and make it look and behave like 7 without systemd > (or even better, with some way of selecting the init methodology > at install-time and afterwards), and with gnome2 (or a clear > choice between 2 and 3). Call it DeCentOS. > Depending on how the systemd drama plays out CentOS-6 may well be our last RH derivative, and perhaps our last Linux. At the moment we are withholding any judgement on the matter for want of clear empirical evidence respecting systemd's benefits and risks. On our test CentOS-7 systems...

...to be "enterprise-ish", that is more or less predictable. > and make it look and > behave like 7 without systemd (or even better, with some way of > selecting the init methodology at install-time and afterwards), and with > gnome2 (or a clear choice between 2 and 3). Call it DeCentOS. Well, there is Linux distribution which is systemd-free. And that distribution I predict will live for decently long time. It is "Devuan" - a fork of Debian, stripped off systemd and friends... well, I should have said: composed without systemd and friends. Devuan was forked off ebian b...