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 indeed attractive. Perhaps that is a better choice for day-to-day Linux than Ubuntu LTS.
- Paul VE1DX On Monday, January 4, 2021 at 7:52:32 AM UTC-4 mjenk...@gmail.com wrote: > 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/a9bccd85-f2b1-404a-ae64-5110f0514650n%40googlegroups.com.
