On 2/4/21 10:39 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
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I haven't decided whether to stay on Debian or not; too early to
tell. .....
Six months on, and no longer too early to tell. I have found Debian to
be minimally different from CentOS, in all actuality; much less
different than transitioning to a *BSD would be. I've transitioned
already deployed and configured production CentOS 8 machines to either
Alma or Rocky (path of least resistance), keeping CentOS 7 machines on 7
until I need to revisit in 2023, and CentOS 6 machines went to Debian
10. Now, I'm going to say that the availability of both Rocky and Alma
is a very good thing, and that availability made things a lot easier for
a few already deployed production systems that needed to stay stable
through the end of the year.
New servers are being deployed on Debian 10; new virtualization hosts on
Proxmox 6.4, although I am testing the Proxmox 6 to 7 upgrade path at
one site and on my development hosts at the main site. Proxmox is
SLICK. The upgrade path for simple servers from Debian 10 to Debian 11
is relatively simple, with a few caveats (no python 2.x in 11, so no
Mailman 2.x, for instance). I have upgraded a few development servers
from 10 to 11, and no issues were noted.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but I've had a reasonably good
experience with this transition. Thought I'd never say that; I've been
a Red Hat user (partisan, even) for a very long time.
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