True but I would still go with CentOS 7 (assuming you want CentOS and not Debian/other). There’s more development focus on newer releases vs backported fixes to older release trains. Also you will eventually run into situations where applications may not upgrade due to the “old nature” of the OS, without adding additional repos or compiling yourself.
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 4:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CentOS 6.7 or 7? That doesn't happen as soon as you might think. I still get regular updates on CentOS 5.11; so THAT horse ain't dead yet, even though it's supposedly been EOS for a while now. For all practical purposes, 6.x will probably continue getting updates for at least 5 years. That's probably longer than the life of the server. In another year or so, I would be comfortable with 7, and it will have more widespread support, and fewer bugs. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 11/10/2015 1:07 PM, Justin Wilson - MTIN wrote: I would do 7 just because of the support nature of it. There will become a time, sooner than 7, that 6 will no longer receive updates. Bite the bullet and do it now. CentOS7 has a little bit of a learning curve. Gone are the init scripts replaced by sys control. This is the biggest change folks have to get used to. Justin Wilson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> --- http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric On Nov 10, 2015, at 8:44 AM, Josh Luthman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: New server? 7 no question. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Nov 10, 2015 1:34 AM, "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: 7, for the 3.x series kernel if nothing else. On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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?
