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Joe Doss

RHEL/CentOS has it's place for sure. It is a nice, stable LTS distro which I would use in some situations, but I feel it's package lifecycle is too conservative for modern Systems Engineering. At Kenna Security we used Fedora 28 through Fedora 31 in production without any issues. Before we switched to CentOS 8 so my co-workers in Engineering Operations could focus on other projects vs our upgrade cadence which happened every 6 months. The LTS nature of RHEL/CentOS allowed for that.

You can get a RHEL developer license and I have used it in the past at home. I use Fedora for pretty much everything that I want to get up and running quickly. I really want to use Fedora CoreOS for my next big thing. 😄