What Linux Are You Running
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CentOS is based on Fedora. But one is about long term support and one is about currency. If Fedora seems weird to you, so would Ubuntu as they both match a six month cycle. Fedora just has the long term support option of CentOS that Ubuntu lacks (they have the name, but not the product.)
The advantage to Fedora or Ubuntu is in currency. Packages are updated every six months, everything from Node to the kernel. So you get new features much earlier. For example PHP7 is standard on Fedora for some time, but nowhere close for CentOS. If you are running modern web apps, like NextCloud, there are some pretty huge benefits from not getting outdated.
Updating every six months instead of every several years (about three or four) means that updates are typically small and incremental rather than large and cumbersome. Updating becomes a normal process and newer security features are available too, just like new stability features. Suse takes this even farther with rolling updates.
The idea behind LTS releases like CentOS is that you can stagnate on a platform and ignore it for a long time. This, of course, has value. But we aren't a stagnant company. We have active support and want the latest features and latest software. We aren't looking for vendors to blame, so long term lock ins to known platforms lacks the value that it might have in a slower moving company.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Linux Are You Running:
CentOS is based on Fedora. But one is about long term support and one is about currency. If Fedora seems weird to you, so would Ubuntu as they both match a six month cycle. Fedora just has the long term support option of CentOS that Ubuntu lacks (they have the name, but not the product.)
The advantage to Fedora or Ubuntu is in currency. Packages are updated every six months, everything from Node to the kernel. So you get new features much earlier. For example PHP7 is standard on Fedora for some time, but nowhere close for CentOS. If you are running modern web apps, like NextCloud, there are some pretty huge benefits from not getting outdated.
Updating every six months instead of every several years (about three or four) means that updates are typically small and incremental rather than large and cumbersome. Updating becomes a normal process and newer security features are available too, just like new stability features. Suse takes this even farther with rolling updates.
The idea behind LTS releases like CentOS is that you can stagnate on a platform and ignore it for a long time. This, of course, has value. But we aren't a stagnant company. We have active support and want the latest features and latest software. We aren't looking for vendors to blame, so long term lock ins to known platforms lacks the value that it might have in a slower moving company.
Yeah, that makes sense.
