CentOS - Jan 2021 - CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 21:32:18 +0000
Jamie Burchell wrote:
> The uncertainty is frustrating and unsettling.
I certainly agree with you on this point!

Personally, while I haven't made an actual decision on which way I'm
going with my own projects, I'm currently leaning toward Oracle Linux.  I
installed it on a laptop a couple of days ago and what I got was exactly what I
get when I install Centos on a laptop.  Even my little script to convert a stock
installation into my custom setup worked as-is, and what I ended up with was
exactly what I was expecting to see.

I don't have any particular love for Oracle, but since they pay X number of
people to keep Oracle Linux current with RHEL and updated, they shouldn't
have any problems with burn-out or a lack of long-term interest on the part of
volunteers that may (or may not) become an issue over the course of time with a
community-driven distribution like Rocky.

But for the moment I'm more-or-less just sitting on my hands, waiting to see
how all of this shakes out over the course of the next few months before I take
any action to change anything.

Frankly, I'm kind of hoping that Rocky turns out to be "the new
Centos", but it seems too early in the game to make the decision to depend
on it.  That may change over the course of the next few months.

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>  but it seems too early in the game to make the decision to depend on
it.  That may change over the course of the next few months.

Yes this is how I feel but conveyed badly in my last. It's currently a
concept and not a viable distro to move to and in some cases there is only
a year to make the move.

At this stage I'm not totally dismissive of Stream either. We already
automatically update our systems with yum-cron / dnf automatic and I'm
reading that if we're already doing that, Stream isn't going to be a
departure i.e. minor version bumps - but I'm still trying to make sense of
the impact in real-terms i.e. what actually changes if we move to Stream.

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 21:59, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 21:32:18 +0000
> Jamie Burchell wrote:
>
> > The uncertainty is frustrating and unsettling.
>
> I certainly agree with you on this point!
>
> Personally, while I haven't made an actual decision on which way
I'm going
> with my own projects, I'm currently leaning toward Oracle Linux.  I
> installed it on a laptop a couple of days ago and what I got was exactly
> what I get when I install Centos on a laptop.  Even my little script to
> convert a stock installation into my custom setup worked as-is, and what I
> ended up with was exactly what I was expecting to see.
>
> I don't have any particular love for Oracle, but since they pay X
number
> of people to keep Oracle Linux current with RHEL and updated, they
> shouldn't have any problems with burn-out or a lack of long-term
interest
> on the part of volunteers that may (or may not) become an issue over the
> course of time with a community-driven distribution like Rocky.
>
> But for the moment I'm more-or-less just sitting on my hands, waiting
to
> see how all of this shakes out over the course of the next few months
> before I take any action to change anything.
>
> Frankly, I'm kind of hoping that Rocky turns out to be "the new
Centos",
> but it seems too early in the game to make the decision to depend on it.
> That may change over the course of the next few months.
>
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Le 05/01/2021 ? 22:59, Frank Cox a ?crit :
> I don't have any particular love for Oracle, but since they pay X
number of
> people to keep Oracle Linux current with RHEL and updated, they
shouldn't
> have any problems with burn-out or a lack of long-term interest on the part
> of volunteers that may (or may not) become an issue over the course of time
> with a community-driven distribution like Rocky.
Similar situation here. Carefully maintaining my servers running CentOS 7,
slowly moving to Oracle Linux while keeping an eye on Rocky Linux.

Glad I based my last two Linux books on CentOS 7 and not 8. When volume 1 was
still a manuscript, someone on this list made fun about it not being based on
CentOS 8 and therefore reflecting Linux in the past. As things are, all 40
chapters are now valid until 2024 instead of 2021.

Cheers,

Niki

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