On 5/20/21 3:18 AM, Tim via users wrote:
1. Me, who has a webserver, mailserver, whatever, and wants it to
keep
on running without having to continually tinker with it manually. A
well managed rolling-release system may succeed there.
Cool, but neither Fedora nor CentOS Stream are rolling releases, so
there's no reason to worry about this with any of the systems in discussion.
2. Others who write code need to have predictable behaviour out of
their systems, it's hard to write code when the goalposts keep
changing. If coding is your job, you may well jump to another distro
that's more reliable.
The API/ABI policy is the same for CentOS Stream as it is for the
corresponding RHEL release, so the goalposts aren't going to move any
more on CentOS Stream than they do on RHEL (or on CentOS today).
On Fedora, of course, the goalposts may shift at roughly 6 month intervals.
I use CentOS on a server, here, because Fedora's rapid changes
are too
disruptive (to me) but Fedora is tolerable on a workstation. I stuck
at CentOS 7 because of what I read about 8, first triggered off when I
read the end-of-life dates for both systems. I'll probably be
replacing the hardware when 7 goes end of life.
I don't know what you've read about CentOS Stream, but the vast majority
of what I've read from sources outside Red Hat have been pure FUD. An
awful lot of people have entirely the wrong idea about what's happening.