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 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 don’t have to pay a fortune for someone > else to do it. It cost me $50 USD for the TLS certificate alone! Now I get > my own and install it for free. I used to use Fedora, but it’s really a > beta version for RedHat and I got tired of the incessant bug fixes and > updates. CentOS was a great solution as it was familiar and mature. > > Anyway, I guess this is not really weewx related. > > - Paul VE1DX > > On Jan 3, 2021, at 6:20 PM, Mark Jenks <mjenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/0xzffO8ddEE/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d86315f0-d75f-4ff6-924f-aa023c28a8fcn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d86315f0-d75f-4ff6-924f-aa023c28a8fcn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/128b4862-b0a3-49d0-ba43-8d12b49f7f44n%40googlegroups.com.
