Re:Rocky Linux 9.0
by mrweasel on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:31AM
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There are entire industries that cannot and will not use rolling releases. That can either be regulatory requirements, or it can be environment where you need/want to be sure that the platform is identical to a reference system.
The best examples are perhaps hospitals, and medical equipment. I previously worked with a hospital where the software is only certified to run on RedHat, and where the system is very tightly controlled. A patch can only be deployed in production, if it has parsed testing and staging environments.
I've also read about research projects, where different versions of glibc, would yield different results. In this case I will continue to argue that this is pretty bad for reproducibility and more of a problem with the people doing the science and not underlying operation system.
Errors, bugs, security holes do sometimes make it into rolling releases, and in some environments regressions are catastrophic or deadly.
Personally I tend opposite world view compared to you. Rolling release are great, for a very small niche, such as desktops for office workers or developers in certain industries.
Rocky Linux is self is a great project, because it allows you to have an environment identical, or close to identical, to the RedHat installations that will eventually run test, staging, QA and production environments, but without the cost. I had been skeptical that Rocky Linux would deliver, but I'm very please and happy that they do.
The best examples are perhaps hospitals, and medical equipment. I previously worked with a hospital where the software is only certified to run on RedHat, and where the system is very tightly controlled. A patch can only be deployed in production, if it has parsed testing and staging environments.
I've also read about research projects, where different versions of glibc, would yield different results. In this case I will continue to argue that this is pretty bad for reproducibility and more of a problem with the people doing the science and not underlying operation system.
Errors, bugs, security holes do sometimes make it into rolling releases, and in some environments regressions are catastrophic or deadly.
Personally I tend opposite world view compared to you. Rolling release are great, for a very small niche, such as desktops for office workers or developers in certain industries.
Rocky Linux is self is a great project, because it allows you to have an environment identical, or close to identical, to the RedHat installations that will eventually run test, staging, QA and production environments, but without the cost. I had been skeptical that Rocky Linux would deliver, but I'm very please and happy that they do.