Re: [weewx-user] Re: CentOS is on shakey ground

2021-01-04 Thread WindnFog
The reason I switched from Fedora to CentOS was stability. Now that weewx is running on Raspbian and that's stable, there's no reason not to use Fedora for other things. I like the familiarity of the RedHat/Fedora/CentOS distros, and the new "bells and whistles" introduced in Fedora are

Re: [weewx-user] Re: CentOS is on shakey ground

2021-01-04 Thread Mark Jenks
Go back and look at Fedora again if you haven't used it in the last few years.It's better than it used to be and is worth a look. On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 4:56:37 PM UTC-6 WindnFog wrote: > I suspect a lot of web hosting companies use CentOS. The outfit I was > with in Florida sure

Re: [weewx-user] Re: CentOS is on shakey ground

2021-01-03 Thread HRM Resident
I suspect a lot of web hosting companies use CentOS. The outfit I was with in Florida sure did. No doubt there’s going to be a scramble to get Rocky Linux or equivalent going quickly. I am now hosting my weewx website on a VPS now using Ubuntu and Apache. That way I have full control and

[weewx-user] Re: CentOS is on shakey ground

2021-01-03 Thread Mark Jenks
I use CentOS for everything, except my home server.At home I use Fedora, since it's RedHat based.. On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 12:48:56 PM UTC-6 WindnFog wrote: > I may have been the only one using CentOS for weewx (before switching to a > Raspberry Pi about a year ago.) I note it's

[weewx-user] Re: CentOS is on shakey ground

2021-01-03 Thread vince
It's a little unclear if IBM will keep to the centos-7 EOL date of 2024 or not, if that helps any. While we know centos-8 will essentially become rhel-next-rolling-release-candidate, they haven't said what they'll do with centos-7 moving forward as far as I've heard. Maybe that helps a