Ubuntu is backed by Canonical, is based on Debian, and as for security I would say Ubuntu is and has been more secure than CentOS and not as secure as Debian. But to be clear they are better like Jennifer Garner is hotter than Jennifer Aniston. Sure, hotter, but you likely would be really happy with either one of them.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 11:59 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Holy shit, I just took a cursory look at redhat pricing. Starts at 350 a > year per server, physical server only, and not intended for production use. > 2500 a year for the data center if I read it right > > I run webmin to manage package updates and BIND. If I'm reading correctly > ubuntu isnt terrible, just less security patched since it's all opensource > and not subsidized by a big dog like red hat. Probably doable, but no yum. > > Has something like this happenned with centos historically? I assume the > linux community will bring about a comparable solution or resolution. > > This just stinks, I had my centos process down. > > Is this end of life like a microst end of life where they just keep > patching and saying they mean it this time for years? > > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 11:28 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > >> Supposedly there will be CentOS Stream? Kind of like RHEL beta instead >> of RHEL day old bread. I guess their answer would be if you are using it >> in a production environment you could always pay for RHEL. Or there’s >> Fedora. I believe Preseem runs on Fedora. >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett >> *Sent:* Friday, December 11, 2020 10:19 PM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Centos is dead? >> >> >> >> Debian is like Ubuntu ,only better. ;-) >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From: *"Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> >> *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> >> *Sent: *Friday, December 11, 2020 5:12:13 PM >> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Centos is dead? >> >> I've been a peasant my whole life, is there any other way? >> >> I think powercode is ubuntu now, so I'll probably go that route, are >> there major differences to it? >> >> I dont like saying ubuntu, too much like ubnt >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 3:47 PM Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: >> >> On 12/11/20 13:21, Steve Jones wrote: >> > Am I reading all this right? Redhat officially killed centos and its >> > tombstoned in 2021? >> > >> > Everything I run is centos. It's not like I know centos but I have my >> > resource sets on where to go to resolve anything that pops up. >> > >> > Is this just a normal thing in the linux world where something is ended >> > but actually just rebrands and keeps going or is it a legit end of the >> OS? >> >> >> It happens. Someone will probably fork it and make up a new distro if >> that hasn't happened already. IMO the main reason to use CentOS was >> because it was rebuilt RHEL. >> >> I gave up on Red Hat about two releases into Fedora Core when it became >> obvious it was just rapidly changing garbage for testing on the peasants >> before bringing fixes into their commercial version. >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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