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Re:CentOS 8.2.2004 Released by AHTERIX5000 on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:06PM (#23532337)
There aren't too many choices if you need to deploy something important in the most boring, reliable and maintainable fashion.

I'm not a "fan" of CentOS like I'm not a fan of Toyota Hilux vehicles but both have their merits.

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Re:CentOS 8.2.2004 Released by mikece on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:17PM (#23532446)
You make the comparison to the Hilux... and there are some HUGE fans of the Hilux specifically because it is extraordinarily reliable. Makes me wonder why there isn't a well known "boring, reliable" distro of Debian[1]... would Toyota mind if "Debian Hilux" were to come into being?

[1] I'm fairly certain there are distros derived from Debian which could be a "Hilux distro" but they aren't well-known to me.

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Re:CentOS 8.2.2004 Released by peebz on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:52PM (#23532835)
Isn't Debian Stable the Hilux distro?
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Re:CentOS 8.2.2004 Released by mikece on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:38AM (#23538405)
Are there LTS releases supported as long as CentOS?

(That's not rhetorical -- I honestly don't know.)

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Re:CentOS 8.2.2004 Released by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:33PM (#23577492)
No, RHEL/CentOS aim for an absurd 10-year lifecycle, whereas Debian, even with LTS, is aiming for 5 years.

Compare https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos and https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/debian for exact figures.

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