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Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by bzImage@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] kwozyman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

For all my non-compliant, non-supported hosts I started using Fedora CoreOS quite successfully.

If you package your applications as containers, you should have a very easy time with it. It's based off ostree, which means a couple of things:

  • immutable (so not easy to break, I guess?)
  • atomic upgrades, which means you upgrade in a single step
  • atomic and full rollbacks, which means if an upgrade breaks your host, you can rollback to the exact previous version booted simply by choosing it from grub
  • still based on rpm, so you will still have a grasp of it, even though many things are completely different
  • other benefits I forgot, I'm sure :)

All with the added benefit that once you go towards containers you can change your distro with minimal effort, so there's that.

[–] anteaters@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm a long time Opensuse user ~~but that is also somewhat RedHat based I think~~ . Highly recommend it, though. Have been using it on a server since 2014 and just kept updating through all the opensuse versions since then without problems. Exceptionally stable.

Also use it on my work laptop and I'm also with that very satisfied regarding stability and usability.

Edit: it's based on Slackware and not redhat.

[–] nitrolife@rekabu.ru 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you want easy way - Ubuntu. All packages exist, all developers support. But snap is pain.

If you need mainline packages - Arch. But be care with bugs. Use LTS kernel or you can broke filesystem on one day for example.

If you want forgot about dependencies - NixOS. But Nix not classic packet manager and you can feel pain on start.

In reality, a lot depends on the environment in which your code will work. If it's Java, then in principle it doesn't matter, but if it's C/C++, it's better to develop in an environment as close to production as possible.

[–] SapienSRC@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I can throw in a vote for Debian stable as well. I've recently installed Debian 12 and I've been blown away by how great it's been compared to my recent Fedora 38 experience out of box.

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[–] KeyLowMike85@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

There are several options. Alma/Rocky, Fedora, Debian, BSD, just to name a few.

[–] Overcast@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use Ubuntu for everything (including at work, tens of thousands machines) and it's great

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[–] uncapybarable@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Personal and general purpose: KDE Neon (yeah yeah)

Servers: IDK, now. Probably going to check out SUSE.

[–] Bruce@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Con: KDE Neon dropped LTS support.

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[–] Bogus5553@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Debian's pretty good, but you can always use RHEL with a free account too

[–] lengsel@latte.isnot.coffee -3 points 2 years ago

Devuan over Debian for stability and speed.

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