On 2021-05-19 12:23 p.m., Dave Ihnat wrote:
On 19 May at 11:16, Terry Polzin foxec208@gmail.com 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-...
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.