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Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, mostly i use REHL based distros like Centos/Rocky/Oracle for the solutions i develop but it seems its time to leave..

What good server/minimal distro you use ?

Will start to test Debian stable.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

For server, Debian is great :) i use ubuntu 20.04 lts personally

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Any issues with CentOS stream for your work? Could always switch to Fedora server too if you wanted to keep the same structures and such, but separate some from RedHat.

[–] Auli 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Red Hat has alot of sway with Fedora considering they pulled those codecs out of it. That's when I realized it isn't really a community distro.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It think it's more for RH/IBM to test new stuff on the community as opposed to something like Debian or Gentoo that actually has a fairly clear community commitment.

I don't recall a lot community polling and discussion when they moved to systemd, btrfs or wayland.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Debian stable, but Alpine and Guix are also worth considering.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been seeing stuff about this but I don't quite understand, what does this mean for Fedora? Do I need to switch too?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Those distos are for professional use cases mostly. Fedora is fine and there is no need to worry.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I would definitely give openSUSE a try. such a solid distro. Debian is also great, popOS seems likeable, nixOS is very very solid, I've used Arch, Manjaro and opensuse myself. currently on arch. but I highly recommend openSUSE

[–] Auli 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't understand what's happening at Red Hat. First they pull the codecs out of Fedora which is supposed to be a community distro so why are company lawyers involved? Now basically closing their source code. I mean technically not violating the GPL cause you only have to have your source available to your customers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Codecs were never legal to include, community distro or not. The RedHat lawyers told Fedora that, and Fedora removed them

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Looks like this sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I have utilized Debian and Minimum Ubuntu as an alternative to Centos with reasonably pleasurable results

I do also like Absolute for crafting the perfect lightweight install, but it's kind of a pain in the ass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I thought very similar after the RHEL moves that Red Hat has made. I was thinking OpenSUSE or Debian, but I am still unsure as what I am going to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have to also add to the voices recommending Debian stable. I've used it now for ten straight years after I stopped distro-hopping for my servers and desktop, and I cannot imagine using another distro. It's incredibly stable, but the best part of Debian is the absolutely expansive repositories that even the Arch User Repository can't beat. Very rarely do I ever need to use Flatpak (ugh) for packages, or look to add in new external repositories.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

@americanwaste @bzImage
Honestly Ive had the inverse experience where the package I need is only in AUR and not debian repos, but at least we can agree that Flatpak and Snap are terrible

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Debian is stable. Arch is bleeding edge and vanilla. if you want something on arch you got to install it and follow the arch wiki

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Slackware. Its stable as a mofo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn slackers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

We are everywhere!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Slackware because it rules.
OpenSuse for RPM and company backing.
EndeavourOS for "lazy" Arch install.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm also moving away from RHEL. I have 3 RHEL servers right now, a hypervisor host, a podman vm, and a Samba share vm. I really liked that you could specify regulatory compliance at install time. Makes it really easy for standing up compliant servers. Are there any distros that do something similar?

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