Age catches up with me...
Jul. 16th, 2014 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swehNo, not my age. The age of my operating systems.
I have (quick count) 7 primary OS images that I care about. Linode, Panix v-colo, SoYouStart, home server, "bastion host" VM, primary usage VM, desktop. 6 of them are CentOS, one is Ubuntu (guess which one :-)).
Of the RedHat^WCentOS machines, 3 are C5, 3 are C6.
I chose CentOS many years back because of RedHat's long term support policy. I very very quickly got annoyed with Fedora's upgrade policy (FC2; that quickly!). However these old machines... RedHat 5 goes EOL in 2 or 3 years. I can procrastinate, but eventually I guess I need to rebuild these 3 machines with C7.
The 3 C6 machines I don't really have a need to rebuild. Not for 6 years :-) Except maybe my home server; maybe there's something useful in C7. I think I'll wait.
I have (quick count) 7 primary OS images that I care about. Linode, Panix v-colo, SoYouStart, home server, "bastion host" VM, primary usage VM, desktop. 6 of them are CentOS, one is Ubuntu (guess which one :-)).
Of the RedHat^WCentOS machines, 3 are C5, 3 are C6.
I chose CentOS many years back because of RedHat's long term support policy. I very very quickly got annoyed with Fedora's upgrade policy (FC2; that quickly!). However these old machines... RedHat 5 goes EOL in 2 or 3 years. I can procrastinate, but eventually I guess I need to rebuild these 3 machines with C7.
The 3 C6 machines I don't really have a need to rebuild. Not for 6 years :-) Except maybe my home server; maybe there's something useful in C7. I think I'll wait.
