On 2021-05-19 12:23 p.m., Dave Ihnat wrote:
On 19 May at 11:16, Terry Polzin <foxec208@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually you may be better off with CENTOS for stability.
Except Redhat has dropped CentOS. They announced it in December;
lessee...here's an article:
https://talesfromthedatacenter.com/2020/12/centos-and-the-bomb-that-ibm-red-hat-dropped/
I've not been following what's happened in the few months since then, but
the end result will still probably be that CentOS isn't the go-to it was.
They didn't drop it at all. They changed from a fixed release schedule
to a rolling release. As a potential dev environment, this is a huge
improvement. RedHat and CentOS tend to be running ancient versions of
tools and apps in the name of stability - not what you need when you're
developing new things. I expect that the difference between Fedora (an
excellent dev platform IMHO) and CentOS (previously a trailing-edge
production platform) will shrink significantly.
If you develop on Fedora, your biggest issue is going to be how to
deploy on RedHat when their supported libs are 5 or 7 major revs back.
I do not think that Fedora (and therefore also the new CentOS) will be
suitable for most deployments, unless you are ok with the agile mindset
- minor dev rework and redeploying constantly. On the other hand, with
the latest updates always being installed, it is far more secure than
its locked-in-the-past parent. RedHat tends to wait a long time and
then emit official security-only fixes every few months, leaving you
exposed for a pretty dangerous window if you don't pay for the most
expensive top-tier support. YMMV of course.
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