Comment by bpye
7 years ago
This is sad, Fedora has been my favourite distribution for a little while. Red Hat have been a good community player and it is a big loss for them to be gobbled up by IBM. What is the best alternative to Fedora and CentOS?
The obvious alternative would be Ubuntu. The LTS releases are alternatives to RHEL/CentOS. The others are Fedora alternatives.
However, Red Hat is _far_ more than RHEL. They actually build a ton of OSS that's used in RHEL and elsewhere. Ubuntu does little more than repackage Debian. That's not a criticism. They package well, and they know how to polish. But there's no replacement for Red Hat as a company.
It's so weird because as a long time fedora user I absolutely detest Ubuntu. Can't stand how bloated it's become.
Try vanilla Debian. I really don't get the fascination with Ubuntu - modern Debian does all the same things, and in many cases it does it better (saner defaults, less opinionated).
And if one really needs a "one click out of the box" desktop distro, then Mint.
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That's why we have Debian!
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OpenSuse, they've shown an ability to deal with corporate buyouts and survive. They also continue to support the open source community.
NixOS due to its excellent community and quality.
Debian is solidly community based. Ubuntu depends on Debian in order to add its own value on top.
I only used tried-and-tested distros like Yggdrasil.
I'm sticking with Fedora - too early to tell.
Too early to say what will happens with Fedora and other RH products.
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