December 10th, 2020 at 3:06 AM
Much agreed. Oracle Linux is interesting. I might have to check it out a lot more in the coming weeks.
I've used CentOS before, but I was too unfamiliar with it at the time and Ubuntu was where my experience was. But the stability is quite attractive. Apparently Oracle's Kernel is renowned in the industry, and evidently it is very similar to CentOS and RHEL (to the point that it is 100% binary compatible and uses almost identical repositories). Might have to check it out, it's going to get HUGE if cPanel continues to use RHEL derivatives as the preferred distro.
@Thomas: Yea, Ubuntu's 5 year support cycle is very good, but it can't compete with CentOS' 10 year cycle. I know of PLENTY of servers still running Ubuntu 16.04, so the support cycle definitely still matters.
I've used CentOS before, but I was too unfamiliar with it at the time and Ubuntu was where my experience was. But the stability is quite attractive. Apparently Oracle's Kernel is renowned in the industry, and evidently it is very similar to CentOS and RHEL (to the point that it is 100% binary compatible and uses almost identical repositories). Might have to check it out, it's going to get HUGE if cPanel continues to use RHEL derivatives as the preferred distro.
@Thomas: Yea, Ubuntu's 5 year support cycle is very good, but it can't compete with CentOS' 10 year cycle. I know of PLENTY of servers still running Ubuntu 16.04, so the support cycle definitely still matters.
