Is the Era of Long Term Support Over for Operating Systems?
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Traditional thinking says that production systems need long term support, but why? So that we can leave systems for a decade without needing to update them? Maybe it is time to consider rapid release operating systems and distributions. In this latest article from SMBITJournal, I look at why LTS systems, like RHEL, CentOS, SLES, openSuse Leap, Windows, and Ubuntu LTS, maybe no longer be the best option for new deployments and why rapid release cycle products like Fedora, openSuse Tumbleweed and Ubuntu Current may make more sense in the future.
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For us, after many years of using CentOS we have been moving heavily to Fedora. We've found it to be more capable and easier to maintain - solving many of our issues around performance, features and product support. It's made my job much easier.
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@scottalanmiller said in Is the Era of Long Term Support Over for Operating Systems?:
For us, after many years of using CentOS we have been moving heavily to Fedora. We've found it to be more capable and easier to maintain - solving many of our issues around performance, features and product support. It's made my job much easier.
I wish Red Hat would offer support for Fedora.
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but dont you feel like beta tester for unstable updates ?
and I agree with the fact with faster releases the learning curve is adaptive and smooth, this was evident for me cause I picked up Centos only when it was ending like started at 6.8 series or 6.7 then they updated to 7 and for someone that was just learning the ropes, they did change alot in the 7 series. For me it was better I liked the new systemctl and dnf but I am sure older folks that are used to old method hated it cause of the change factor.
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@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Is the Era of Long Term Support Over for Operating Systems?:
but dont you feel like beta tester for unstable updates ?
No, not at all. Rapid release doesn't imply that updates are unstable or untested. Fedora, for example, gets extensive testing.
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Good read, thanks.
