Is it better to leave Centos?

[oriettaxx]

Our company moved all our Linux o.s. to Centos many years ago (it was my personal will and decision as senior sys admin): before we had a mix of linuxs and the move helped much a lot mainly for having everywhere the same o.s., but also on upgrading o.s. (always very easy and smooth: just one command with no configuration questions!)

Very happy so far! Centos in our dev and production servers, and Fedora in our laptops.

now you know what is happening: and I have to take a decision (and pretty soon since all our Centos are v.7)

Can you help us with our decision? If we leave Centos we'll opt for Ubuntu of course (but personally I do not like snap).

Thanks

[jmcnulty]

Similar situation to yourself except we already have some Ubuntu as well. Decision is yet to be made. Ubuntu is a viable alternative and just as capable as CentOS if not more so these days. Snap is there in case what you're looking for isn't already available in a repo, but it's not mandatory to use it. One of the nice things you get with Ubuntu is LXD System Containers. Think half way house between application containers (docker) and full fat VMs. Super impressed with how lightweight and flexible they are (snapshot, cluster, publish, migrate, etc).

If you're really paranoid about getting burned by a proprietary business decision again in the future have you thought about Debian? Providing your hardware is supported it's also a solid choice. It can also optionally run snap and LXD Containers (via snap currently).

[Bender]

If all your documentation and processes are around CentOS, then staying with it may be easier. If you already take snapshots of the public repos and manage OS update change management that way, then nothing should really change for you. The same Dev/QA testing processes would work with CentOS stream and you should hopefully catch and surprises prior to production using your existing change management processes. That is just my opinion based on change control and patch management experience and based on conversations with other organizations. C7 will be EOL in 2024 so you have time to figure out your path.

[yuppie_scum]

Nobody ever got fired for choosing Ubuntu.