Systemd vs. Docker

Posted Mar 3, 2016 21:30 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Systemd vs. Docker by jcc1
Parent article: Systemd vs. Docker

> I know a lot of shops that are staying with EL6 for the time being, and it's not just for the normal reason of "letting things shake out for a year". There are serious concerns with systemd's reliability and the philosophy behind it.

Speaking for my employer, they're sticking with EL6 because the vendors of their business-criticial EDA tools haven't certified said tools for use with EL7 yet. Indeed, they are still using EL5 on some systems for similar reasons.

(We're talking about per-seat licensing costs in the upper five figures here. The actual RHEL license price is a rounding error, as is the hardware cost for all but the beefiest of boxes)

Systemd vs. Docker

Posted Mar 4, 2016 2:13 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

> they are still using EL5 on some systems

I still have plenty of EL5 systems as well, for most purposes its totally fine, feature complete. We will migrate in the future because our developers are getting tired of PERL 5.8.8 and would like to be able to use current libraries without trouble, other than that I can't think of any base OS improvement that is substantial, except for systemd, which I like because I'm tired of crappy init scripts or people just running things out of rc.local.