Thanks for all the comments! A number of things to consider. An additional question? Are there any resources/services/people you might know of who do remote sys admin stuff for the small dev/project operation? Thanks On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 12:21 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/20/21 3:18 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > 1. Me, who has a webserver, mailserver, whatever, and wants it to keep > > on running without having to continually tinker with it manually. A > > well managed rolling-release system may succeed there. > > > Cool, but neither Fedora nor CentOS Stream are rolling releases, so > there's no reason to worry about this with any of the systems in discussion. > > > > 2. Others who write code need to have predictable behaviour out of > > their systems, it's hard to write code when the goalposts keep > > changing. If coding is your job, you may well jump to another distro > > that's more reliable. > > > The API/ABI policy is the same for CentOS Stream as it is for the > corresponding RHEL release, so the goalposts aren't going to move any > more on CentOS Stream than they do on RHEL (or on CentOS today). > > On Fedora, of course, the goalposts may shift at roughly 6 month intervals. > > > > I use CentOS on a server, here, because Fedora's rapid changes are too > > disruptive (to me) but Fedora is tolerable on a workstation. I stuck > > at CentOS 7 because of what I read about 8, first triggered off when I > > read the end-of-life dates for both systems. I'll probably be > > replacing the hardware when 7 goes end of life. > > > I don't know what you've read about CentOS Stream, but the vast majority > of what I've read from sources outside Red Hat have been pure FUD. An > awful lot of people have entirely the wrong idea about what's happening. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
