Re: Blog article about the state of CentOS

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On 6/17/20 3:32 PM, Phil Perry wrote:

On my home file server for example, which is not connected to the internet, what does it matter if the release is 1 month or 3 months out of date? I can install the server in the knowledge it's going to work, and be supported with updates for 10 years and I can largely forget about it. My el5 box ran for more than 10 years until the hardware eventually died.
EL5... how modern...  from a production application server VM, not internet-connected:
[root@c6-2850 ~]# ssh root@10.1.x.y
root@10.1.x.y's password:
Last login: Tue Jan 28 19:53:32 2020
unknown terminal "xterm-256color"
unknown terminal "xterm-256color"
[root@localhost root]# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS (Slurm)
[root@localhost root]#

This one has to be hard reset every day or two (virsh reset rhel2.1) since the bridge to the guest just dies randomly, and a reboot inside the guest hangs hard before finishing the reboot.  The hard reset has to manually load the ethernet kernel module after it's booted up so far; if the ethernet module loads too soon it will never connect.... haven't found the reason for that, either, just run a pinging script every fifteen minutes on the host to check for connectivity and 'virsh reset rhel2.1' when it fails.  The appserver is hard reboot resilient, and the software does a very specific task, and there's no budget for a rewrite.  At least I did upgrade it from Red Hat Linux 5.2 a couple of years ago (the RHL5.2 box, an old AMD K6/2-450 with 128MB of RAM, ran almost continuously for 20 years).

Thanks, CentOS!

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