On 19.12.2020 01:46, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > Am 18.12.20 um 19:14 schrieb Matthew Miller: >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 08:12:26AM -0500, Konstantin Boyandin via >> CentOS wrote: >>>>> It's purely a developer's distro. >>>> Has Chris Wright ever recommended CentOS for any purpose other than >>>> development and testing? >>> Will a Red Hat CTO, in his right mind, ever recommend a free clone of >>> RHEL for any purpose other than development and testing? >> >> Right... he's not "lying", he just has a different audience. >> >> Red Hat has definitely never ever said in any official way that CentOS >> Linux >> is acceptable for production uses. And that's not going to change with >> CentOS Stream. >> >> You should see people's heads spin around like a scene from a horror >> movie >> when I suggest that people actually do run Fedora operating systems in >> production! > > > In the different threads here in the list - I noticed that everyone > (not all in quantity) has a different definition of production and > development "classification". For instance RH: Their devel license > talks about not to use it for production. I am still unsure where > the border for that are? Running a workstation and "producing" output > that have value for me is a production system. As also a fly radar > HA cluster running 24/7 is a production system. Anyway, lets see > what Q1 2021 will bring ... A good point. I would say that production server is the one used by users of a service - the server which is expected to be stable, reliable and predictable. So yes, the workstation I use in my everyday tasks is a production system for me. -- Sincerely, Konstantin Boyandin system administrator (ProWide Labs Ltd. - IPHost Network Monitor)