As a long time CentOS (and prior to that, Fedora) shop, we have been taking an interest in these developments. The thing is, as a small business, one of the really appealing things about Open Source is that the friction of licensing is just not there. We could probably qualify for this program, but why would we want to have to worry about auditing ourselves to see if we needed to start paying at some point when we can just switch to Debian or one of the CentOS clones which are in the works? Not that Red Hat
In a similar situation. I've been looking at alternatives for years. I mostly care about package management. Also would greatly prefer rolling-release. Tired of the nightmare of spinning up new OS install, re-learning a large percentage of configuration management that's changed now, as opposed to learning them one at a time during normal updates.
I'm loving Alpine linux at home. First tried it because it can be a very tiny install. And/or includes Xen (hypervisor which works very well.) Or you can do
Thing is that some tools that you are very used to change and a new fresh install won't have them whereas an old upgraded install (via rolling release) probably will have them. Had this issue with ifconfig and route when upgrading/updating debian/ubuntu releases vs. a fresh install.
Yes, absolutely. You almost can't get away from it, unless you just don't upgrade. And that might be reasonable as long as you check for known vulnerabilities in any of the versions you're running. That said, if you're firewalled and not running an Internet server, you might be okay.
I inherited one webserver running a 10+ year old Red Hat version, patched to newest patches, which were still 10+ years old. It was under constant attack, and only some vulnerability in vsftpd, when heavily attacked, would e
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Probably A No Here (Score:5, Interesting)
As a long time CentOS (and prior to that, Fedora) shop, we have been taking an interest in these developments. The thing is, as a small business, one of the really appealing things about Open Source is that the friction of licensing is just not there. We could probably qualify for this program, but why would we want to have to worry about auditing ourselves to see if we needed to start paying at some point when we can just switch to Debian or one of the CentOS clones which are in the works? Not that Red Hat
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In a similar situation. I've been looking at alternatives for years. I mostly care about package management. Also would greatly prefer rolling-release. Tired of the nightmare of spinning up new OS install, re-learning a large percentage of configuration management that's changed now, as opposed to learning them one at a time during normal updates.
I'm loving Alpine linux at home. First tried it because it can be a very tiny install. And/or includes Xen (hypervisor which works very well.) Or you can do
Re:Probably A No Here (Score:2)
Thing is that some tools that you are very used to change and a new fresh install won't have them whereas an old upgraded install (via rolling release) probably will have them. Had this issue with ifconfig and route when upgrading/updating debian/ubuntu releases vs. a fresh install.
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Yes, absolutely. You almost can't get away from it, unless you just don't upgrade. And that might be reasonable as long as you check for known vulnerabilities in any of the versions you're running. That said, if you're firewalled and not running an Internet server, you might be okay.
I inherited one webserver running a 10+ year old Red Hat version, patched to newest patches, which were still 10+ years old. It was under constant attack, and only some vulnerability in vsftpd, when heavily attacked, would e