On 18.12.2020 14:46, Gordon Messmer wrote:> On 12/17/20 5:54 PM, 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?>> Shall I explain difference between a >> developer's distro and the one suitable for production servers (a >> rhetoric question)? > > How did you imagine you would look when you asked a CentOS maintainer if > he understands the importance of the thing he's been doing for 17 years?That's completely unrelated to my statements. Please do worry about your own look. Thanks. -- Sincerely, Konstantin Boyandin system administrator (ProWide Labs Ltd. - IPHost Network Monitor)
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! -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader