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That's strange. CentOS 6.x is still very popular.
by armab 11y ago
That's strange.
CentOS 6.x is still very popular.
- FooBarWidget 11y agoAnd shipping with kernel 2.6 and being 4 years old.
- x5n1 11y agoyeah it makes sense the 2.6 kernel is too ancient. They have kept it patched up, but upward and onward!
- visualphoenix 11y agoYeah it's huge in the enterprise. Not everyone has migrated to 7.x with systemd yet.
- swinglock 11y agoFar from it, I would be surprised if even most RHEL installations ran RHEL 7 yet.
- dice 11y agoHell, CentOS 5 is still pretty widely deployed (and supported by RH until 2017).
- visualphoenix 11y agoAnd if you recall, RedHat touted Docker support in 6.5: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-launches-latest-version-of-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6 http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-launch...
- justincormack 11y agoBut it is very old, and does not support a lot of features that new software like docker needs. The enterprise release cycle is just too slow for software that is dependent on kernel features.
- astockwell 11y agoCompatibility with CentOS was a big driver to adopting Docker at my prior employer. It's benefits were made even more pronounced on semi-legacy systems like that.
- visualphoenix 11y agoCompletely agreed. It has been a huge help in the migration of legacy systems to containers while underlying monitoring and config infrastructure is being updated to support systemd.
- huslage 11y agoYou can still use 6.x as a base layer inside the container, just not on the host OS.