What are you finding that is not compatible with EL7? CentOS is not going to fade into the oblivion. It's probably the most widely adopted distribution in US 'enterprise' environments (other than RHEL it's self). Red Hat also joined forces (officially) with CentOS early last year [1].
[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-centos-join-forces On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Steve <li...@wavedirect.org> wrote: > Finding a lot of things are not compatible with 7 yet and may not be for a > while. Starting to see a lot of people flipping to Debian. Such a shame > because I really do think Centos is going to now flounder around for the > next 3 years and fade into oblivion. Thanks Novell! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Josh Baird" <joshba...@gmail.com> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 8:21:41 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CentOS 6.7 or 7? > > We have been running RHEL7 in production for quite a while now. My > suggestion would be to deploy EL7. Bite the bullet and learn systemd. > It's really not that hard, just different than init. > > Josh > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > > > There seems to be a fair bit of dissatisfaction with RHEL7/CentOS 7. I'm > > building a couple new servers, if my others are running CentOS 6 and do > > what I need, should I resist the temptation to jump to 7? I think > CentOS 6 > > EOS dates are 2017 for full updates and 2020 for maintenance updates? > > > > I know some people will say switch to Ubuntu or Debian or whatever, let's > > assume I am staying with CentOS, I'm just asking 6 or 7? > > > > >
