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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">At least for our current situation,
WPLUG is planning a server migration to one of the new, lower cost
Linode offerings, that is going to involve doing a complete server
rebuild anyway - our current server is a 32-bit install, and the
newer Linode offerings only support 64-bit. Since we need to do a
complete rebuild anyway, we might as well do so with CentOS 7, as
long as we're at it.<br>
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If we could just bring up the current virtual disk image from our
server under the new lower cost service offering, I'd totally want
to keep it on CentOS 6 - I too see no reason to upgrade for the
sake of upgrading, given Red Hat's lengthy support timeframe - I
don't like to change things simply for the sake of changing, so I
ordinarily would not be enthusiastic about upgrading at this time,
unless there were some specific new feature in RHEL 7 that we
really wanted. (I know that Justin is very enthusiastic about the
idea of running a distro that uses systemd, which is being used in
RHEL as of RHEL 7 - though of course, I personally see systemd as
more of an "anti-feature" than anything else.... ;-) ).<br>
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--Pat.<br>
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On 07/06/2014 12:24 PM, Bryan J Smith wrote:<br>
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2014 at 11:03 AM, Justin Smith </span><span dir="ltr"
style="font-family:arial"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:justin@adminix.net" target="_blank">justin@adminix.net</a>></span><span
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">A CentOS 7 release
candidate has been release, for those who are curious:
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-July/011288.html"
target="_blank">http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-July/011288.html</a><span
style="font-size:9pt"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">Since CentOS 7's
release seems to be imminent, we should probably begin
planning our transition to CentOS 7.</p>
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​Why?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">RHEL5 is supported through 2017Q1 (ELS**
2020Q1).</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">RHEL6 is supported through 2020Q4 (ELS**
2023Q4).</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">No reason to transition systems to RHEL7
until there is a feature absolutely desired.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">And with RHEL6 offering Red Hat Software
Collections (RHSCL) [2a], with CentOS6 also rebuilding
them (SCL) [2b], there is little reason to upgrade just
for a newer scripting language or DB.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">RHEL, and downstream CentOS, is designed
to avoid the need to transition, with sustaining
engineering on releases long abandoned by the Upstream,
for the long-term. It's why a lot of downstream
solutions, both open source and proprietary (e.g., VMware
ESX's run-time platform with its HyperVisor), use Red Hat
core ABI and key components.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/">https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/</a>​</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier
new',monospace">​[2a] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl">https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl</a></div>
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[2b] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL">http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL</a>​</div>
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