On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 06:09:21PM -0700, Thomas Groman wrote: > ... just start a new CentOS 7 box and migrate your stuff over.
Agreed. Machines are cheap, especially used (motherboard from Free Geek?), and bringing up a new distro on the new machine while leaving the old one running is slightly less painful. Get a KVM switch and use both. I use Scientific Linux, a clone of RHEL like CentOS, with many scientific, engineering, and math packages added. The SL online community is not nearly as big as CentOS, and I rely on the CentOS community and FAQs as well, but the SL folks solve the same kinds of computing problems that I do, calculation rather than web-service oriented. The transition from RHEL6 to RHEL7 (the upstream version that CentOS and Scientific Linux are copied from) is especially jarring, much more fraught than RHEL5 to RHEL6 was. I am going through the process now because my mind is aging. I must upgrade eventually, when RHEL6 reaches end-of-life perhaps 6 years from now. The init change is more painful if you wrote your own init scripts (I haven't). A more painful change for me is the change of firewall control to a GUI. I am setting the new SL7 machines up with the older iptables instead, because 90% of my work is through xterm. The most painful change is gnome3, which is an abomination unto Cthulu. Mate is functionally only 90% of gnome 2, but getting better, while gnome3 is 30% of gnome 2 and getting worse, more like a video game than a work environment. Setting up Mate can be a pain in the ass, but there are many in the CentOS community helping to make that easier. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
