Also go with 7 because there is currently no supported way to upgrade a 6.7.x system to 7.x in place. Official centos documentation says "reinstall".
IMHO a lot worse than keeping a Debian system up to date, squeeze to wheezy to Jessie. On Nov 11, 2015 5:37 AM, "Paul Stewart" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > > > --- > 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]> > 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]> wrote: > > 7, for the 3.x series kernel if nothing else. > > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Ken Hohhof <[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? > > > > > > >
