On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 3:44 PM Max Pyziur <pyz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can do so for zero cost. > > > > Go to https://developers.redhat.com/ and sign up. Then you can download > > and use RHEL on up to 16 your development/personal use machines. You can > > use RHEL virtualization for as many guests as you want. > > > > It's a fantastic way to learn RHEL, and Red Hat actively encourages > > folks to do so. > > Thank you for the recommendation. Reviewing your link, I see that "Developer membership benefits" are available for only one year. Is this really the case or is it extendable in some way? > > Per the other answer that I received on this thread, I'm inclined to use Fedora Server. The reason I was using CentOS was because I also leased a machined colocated at a data center that ran CentOS. In order to gauge the nuance of CentOS, I figured that it would be good to also have a test/backup machine running CentOS; with my shutdown/abandonment of the colocated machine, that no longer is necessary. > > But I am open on the benefits of RHEL provided they are indefinite and not one years. > > Thank you again, > > Max > The only use case I see for using RedHat or Oracle Linux(I retired from Oracle, and have significant RHEL5/6/7 experience with support both from Redhat and Oracle) or Centos is if you have software that was specifically written for it and won't work on newer and/or is only supported on it, and/or need to have a solid defined/tested/approved NIS security standard. Otherwise I would run Fedora as the enterprise distributions a mess of older packages that it is difficult to get anything newish working right on. -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue