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Ubuntu or SLES for Enterprise, Debian for everything else. Red Hat really foot-rocketed themselves with this move to me.

• mrweasel 6y ago
  Honest question, because I’d love to know: are you actually a paying Redhat customer and a CentOS user, and is CentOS the reason you’re a Redhat customer? I’m asking because I get the feeling that there isn’t much overlap between CentOS users and paying Redhat customers.
  • watwatinthewat 6y ago
    Where I work there is a bit of overlap because some projects want the dev environment to match the final environment, and Red Hat is basically the only player in the game for prod in government. I can see this pushing some projects to pay for Red Hat for dev machines versus take the risk of having a separate dev environment. Where that isn't a concern though, it will push devs over to Ubuntu (the only other Linux flavor I've seen around here) probably, and quickly the friction in government against non-Red Hat Linux flavors will drop. As an example of that friction, last I looked Red Hat published themselves guides and scripts to get CentOS stig'ed to the level we need here, while neither Ubuntu nor anyone else had automated it.
  • rubyist5eva 6y ago
    I, personally, am not a paying customer but I work for people that are using RHEL for _everything_. I would spin-up CentOS VMs for other things just because I am familiar with RHEL. Now that that way of working is essentially dead, I have no reason to recommend or use RHEL in any capacity.