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 still mentioned as a distro in 
> the weewx documentation, with RedHat and Fedora.  CentOS was to be 
> supported until 31 May 2029. 
>
> Since the takeover of RedHat by IBM, this has been shortened to 31 
> December 2021.  If anyone is still using CentOS for weewx, it's probably a 
> good idea to migrate to another distro soon.  There's a movement to replace 
> CentOS with "Rocky Linux", but there's no timeframe for its deployment:
>
> https://wiki.rockylinux.org/
>
> The "strength" of CentOS was stability because it is a clone of RedHat.  I 
> still use CentOS for other things than weewx, and rather than wait to see 
> if Rocky Linux is successful, I'm moving to Ubuntu LTS 2020, which has at 
> least 5 years of support/stability.
>
> - Paul VE1DX
>

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