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Comment by twic

3 years ago

> No one in their right mind would run RHEL on a desktop.

I worked somewhere where we ran CentOS on the desktop. That seemed to work pretty well. I don't see why RHEL would be any worse, apart from being more expensive.

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_muff1nman_  3 years ago

I ran CentOS on the desktop for many years. It was a very nice, solid setup that I could rely on updating without sweating about an upgrade breaking something. I've recently switched to fedora in light of recent CentOS 8 shenanigans but CentOS 7 was wonderful at the time.

  • galangalalgol  3 years ago

    What did centos 8 do?

    • hxtk  3 years ago

      It ceased to exist. Redhat stopped supporting the version that was equivalent to RHEL8 and kept CentOS stream for developers targeting RHEL 8 to use.

      This came with some changes to open up the developer license program for RHEL so that it could be used for small scale production workloads.

      The big problem was that the latter was only hinted at by the time the CentOS EOL was announced and didn't get spelled out in precise language for a few more months, which led to a lot of very angry sysadmins who had been using CentOS in production franticly searching for a new platform in the meantime.

    • mroche  3 years ago

      I believe GP is referring to the early termination of CentOS Linux 8 at the end of 2021 rather than matching RHEL 8 to 2029. Red Hat reallocated resources to CentOS Stream for 8+, which EOLs at the end of their respective RHEL major release's Full Support phase (the first 5/5.5 years).

      As a result, new rebuild distributions spun up to fill in CentOS Linux's role in the ecosystem as bug-for-bug clones.

      CentOS Linux 7 is and will still be maintained until the mid-2024 EOL of RHEL 7.