CentOS

Forgive my ignorance but doesn't RHEL kernel evolve over time? I.e. over its lifespan will it not progress to 5.x?

Exactly what I'm waiting for. Any idea when they'll formally support RHEL 8? In my search I also found this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-5.0-Problem A bit concerning. I just switched from FreeBSD to CentOS 8 so trying to understand what kind of ZFS support I can ...

FYI guys... now on CentOS 8. Needed better hardware support for the new server box. So far so good but waiting for ZoL to support RHEL 8.

@aks - you just made me laugh! I'm not exactly running another eBay, that's true, however I still want to use something decent... and by that I mean something that will save effort, won't cause unnecessary headaches, etc.

@scottro - thank you!

Thank you. Very interesting - do you have a link to the ZFS implementation discussion / decision? Documentation and community: true, the handbook is a great start but not enough. I use a combination of online tutorials, man pages and forums. In my experience, the community's been great. Very experie...

Thanks Trevor. Interesting... that's not too different from the BSD model. What does reinstall mean? Complete wipe or are there tool to enable controlled replacement of every package and config? What is configs differ - are there integrity checking / comparison tools?

Hi All, I've been using FreeBSD to power a small-scale network for the past few years. I found it to be very well suited for everything I wanted to achieve. Recently however, I've been wondering whether another OS, such as CentOS, could provide a better experience than BSD. Is there much to improve ...