Re: [tlug] Upgrading from CentOS 7

[Scott Robbins <srobb@example.com>]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 12:50:41PM +0100, Christian Horn wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 07:11:16AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > 
> > If I haven't commented already, I'd add my voice to this. CentOS is now 
> > CentOS Stream, more or less a development platform for RH. Current stream
> > is similar to RH's 10 Beta right now.
> 
> FWIW, I would flag things like this:
> - upstream (kernel, nginx, etc etc.): development
> - Fedora: development, testing
> - CentOS stream: stabilization (errata land here before they land
>   in RHEL)
> - RHEL: production
> 
> For the initial request, I would here suggest a Debian stable:
> CentOS stream support ends much earlier than RHEL, and with Debian
> you have great chances that also upgrading to future releases goes
> well.
> 
> 
> > (Fedora is also more or less a
> > development platform, but more desktop oriented.)
> 
> Maybe your perception is 'Fedora as Desktop', but many more variants
> and spins are available.  Some are just different in the default 
> choices for filesystems and selected packages, but some also work
> with other paradigms (CoreOS, IoT).
> https://fedoraproject.org/spins lists them at the bottom.

Thanks for the clarifications, Chris. That explains it well.

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