Hi, that's what I did, I tried centos, but more: during a consultancy assignment I got few years ago I had to work with an IT service provider that supported (and supports nowadays) only centos and opensuse within its cloud and virtualization services. I must say that I had no problem at all when the change was in the minor distribution version number (i.e. from 6.3 to 6.4) but encountered great issues when we wanted to update to different major version number (i.e. 6.x to 7.y) even if I followed exactly all the instructions I found online on centos web site, the outcome was the same, I had to build the new machine from scratch.
My personal opinion is that if your choice is to have and implement a time-based release plan, the updating process should work out of the box in the great majority of circumstances, my personal use case is to have boxes that *must* have installed a lot of specific software packages tailored to meteorological forecasts and analisys, rebuild a box from scratch is a very time consuming process (just for me, maybe others do not have such issues ...) so, at least for my personal usage and development tasks I switched to debian, again it's not an absolute "value judgement" it's only a personal opinion, expediency based ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- luca.pagano...@gmail.com -- https://github.com/lucapaganotti -- sourceforge email: -- lucapagano...@users.sourceforge.net -- skype name: luca.paganotti [image: http://it.linkedin.com/in/lucapaganotti] <http://it.linkedin.com/in/lucapaganotti> -- Mastodon: l <https://www.facebook.com/luca.paganotti.66> ucapagano...@fosstodon.org -- --------------------------------------------------------------- -- Mistakes are portals of discovery - JAAJ --- -------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 5:50 PM wwp <subscr...@free.fr> wrote: > Hello luca, > > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 08:43:35 +0100 luca paganotti <luca.pagano...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, I switched from fedora to debian few years ago after about ten years > of > > fedora distros usage and now happy with my linux boxes. The main reason > was > > the pain I had at each new fedora release, the upgrade process to new > > versions often failed and I had to "rebuild" the offended machine(s). > This > > is not acceptable (at least for me), no such pains with debian even if > I'm > > not on the bleeding edge I have now a stable environment. I don't know if > > things are getting better with the last fedora releases, it will be nice > to > > know. Fedora has been my favourite distro for at least a decade, I grow > up > > my linux skills with it, but I had to leave it. Anyway I think that is up > > to you, it's your choice, take your time to explore other distros and > think > > well of what you search in a linux distro, what your use cases will be, > > what you want to do with it. Have an open mind on making your choice :-) > > Why didn't you switch to CentOS instead of to Debian? With CentOS you > would have kept that Fedora taste but with less updates and no upgrade > issue (I think that the CentOS stability an update policy is more or > less equivalent to Debian's one). > > > Regards, > > -- > wwp > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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