Hi Piers, On Sun, Dec 18, 2022, at 18:52, Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote: > I'm sure we have all used a few distros in the past (like many!). > > So CentOS is going away where to next? > > My main use case is LAMP servers (I us Ubuntu as my Desktop). Is Debain > the best candidate or does stable lag to far behind? Is RHEL the only > way forward because of the shallow learning curve? Is Ubuntu having a > shot at the title? Oracle perhaps?
Yeah, like many of us, I've tried various distros, but I've ended up mainly staying with Debian (with a few exceptions). It seems to be the best balance overall considering free-software principles, practicality, etc. Yes, Debian stable does tend to lag behind the latest developments (so on most of my machines I run Debian testing quite smoothly with no problems to speak of), but for most standard LAMP things you'd be doing that won't make a significant difference. And if there's some package you really need a recent version of, sometimes you can just do a one-off install. It really depends on what mix of things you'll be doing. And maybe there's some merit in lagging if you want stability. > https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/centos-replacement That made interesting reading. My quibble would be that Debian runs on quite a few more architectures than are listed in this article. Notable omissions are ARM and MIPS (which I'm running on some of my non-x86 machines, though some are Debian derivatives, like Mobian, Raspian, PureOS). But probably for your use case, it'll be only x86_64 that matters. Also, I don't think it's fair to say that Debian is only for advanced users. I've set up Debian on machines for family members who are just plain folk (that is, non-technical), and they use it quite happily day to day. (It's a great way of keeping old hardware going, like older Macbooks.) And the installation process has got much better over the years. Of course, a laptop / desktop setup is different from a server setup, but if you're running a server, you need some level of technical knowledge anyway. I guess it'll depend a lot on what you want to do, and whether it's on your own real hardware, or on some virtualized setup. > Anyone made the switch and what was their take on it? I can't say anything about switching from Centos, because I've never used it, and my usage of Red Hat was a long time ago. Maybe you could set up a trial installation of Debian (and of the other contenders), to try them out, and see which works best for you. — Smiles, Les. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- luv-main@luv.asn.au To unsubscribe send an email to luv-main-le...@luv.asn.au
