[CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

Mon Dec 14 15:37:40 UTC 2020
Scott Robbins <scottro11 at gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:00:24AM -0700, James Szinger wrote:
> > 
> > Using Fedora on production servers is like climbing without a rope.
> > 
> > It's possible. I've even seen some folks do it.
> 
> Since the release of CentOS 8, I have been moving my stuff over to
> Fedora.  The combination of modularity and missing -devel packages
> make developing and building software on EL8 impractical.  As a
> result, EL8 is poor choice for deploying custom software.
> 
While I don't use Fedora as a production server, I will say that ever since
Adam Williamson joined them, the QA has been quite good. I used to worry
about an update breaking things. Now I use it as my go to Linux on laptops,
and have successfully upgraded, using their instructions for CLI updates,
with no problems. 

I do use openbox and dwm (which I install from source) rather than Gnome,
which  might have something to do with my painless updates.

Not to say it's a good server OS (though not saying it isn't, I don't have
enough knowledge of it in that situation to say), but it's not the always
on the edge of breaking that it used to be.

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Scott Robbins
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