Le 22/01/2021 à 16:16, Lamar Owen a écrit :
For my uses and purposes, Fedora's six month cycle is too fast (I've been on that roller coaster before, no desire to go back to it). CentOS Stream's continuous release cycle is too fast, especially in the kernel ABI department. I believe that, for my uses at least, a two-to-five year cycle is going to be the sweet spot. And the fact of the matter is that CentOS and the ten-year cycle isn't nearly as stable as you might first think; install CentOS 7.0 on a test VM and carefully compare to 7.9, especially on the workstation side with Firefox and Thunderbird!
Back in 2017, I installed an intranet server for a south french regional administration. Their intranet CMS was a heavily modded SPIP and depended on PHP < 5.6. In-house development in these administrations is slow and takes years. So I simply offered to use CentOS 7 with PHP 5.4 and support until 2024. They're happy because that leaves them plenty of time.
As for desktops and workstations, I'm a big fan of OpenSUSE Leap, a hybrid solution based on a semi-rolling model on top of a rock-solid SUSE Linux Enterprise base system.
On servers, I only run RHEL clones (and sometimes the real thing).
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