Ask HN: 3 years ago the end of Centos Linux was announced, where are we now?

[porjo]

In December 2020 Redhat announced [0] "The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream". In response to that several new projects emerged to continue the Centos Linux tradition, notably Alma Linux and Rocky Linux.

Where have Centos users amongst the HN community ended up? Are you still downstream of RHEL using one of these new projects, or have you moved upstream of RHEL by adopting Centos Stream, or maybe you've moved away from Redhat ecosystem altogether?

[0] https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html

[hotpotamus]

I'm really more in the Debian world these days, but previously worked at a large RHEL shop. I'm quite satisfied with Stream, but if you really want an exact clone, Alma is the one to pick based on what I hear from Red Hat people. Rocky seems to have an antagonistic relationship with Red Hat while Alma seems to get along.

[kermatt]

For business apps Debian, Ubuntu. Was content with RHEL derivatives, but the IBM driven chaos (for lack of a better word) was something I did not want to deal with.

For R&D, still Fedora. Hoping it retains its form and does not get Blued.

[zshrc]

I have a Red Hat Developer Subscription so I run a combo of CentOS Stream and RHEL. All hobby stuff. Closest to "production" is my web server and that runs OpenBSD...

[RulerOf]

Oracle Linux on my home server, although I want to use Kernel 6 so may move to a different distro when that need arises.

Amazon Linux in EC2, although I'm not thrilled with AL2023.

[christophilus]

I’m running stream in production and am happy with it. (RHEL compatibility isn’t a concern for my systems.)

[verdverm]

The new year's first task is a migration to Rocky for me, assuming EOY tasks don't spill over

[gtirloni]

RH user since RH4. Running Debian now.

[epirogov]

OpenSuse