On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 05:57:24PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: > > At this point in terms of application support for EL 7 (including SL > 7) from external entities (such as Calibre -- there are others), I > am going soon to be forced to go to another Linux. ... > > Any advice would be appreciated. >
We are looking at Ubuntu - - direction is very stable, each next release is "the same as the previous release", no surprises, no strange changes, no confusion. - trivial upgrade path from version N to version N+1. (works as well as MacOS). - easy to google problems and solutions - works well on laptops (Red Hat was always behind on Wifi and other important drivers) - commonality with Raspberry Pi and other SoC systems (everything is Debian or Ubuntu based, nothing is Red Hat based). - many hardware vendors now supply Ubuntu and Debian centric drivers and support Now that both Ubuntu and Red Hat use systemd, NetworkManager & co management of both has become very similar. Only big remaining difference is the package manager - apt vs rpm/yum, but even here Red Hat have muddied the waters by switching to dnf and a new package format (new checksum algorythms). Since building rpm packages was always a major pain, I am not sure I want to figure it all out again with CentOS/EL-8 just to find out that I cannot (or I can?) build RPM packages that work on all three - el6, el7 and el8. Might as well cut out the middleman and use "git pull; make install" to install and manage the 2-3-4 scripts that I manage with RPM packages right now. I have been saying the above to everybody for the last 6 months and not a single person so far had answered with "let's stick with Red Hat" or "let's stick with Red Hat because of important reason X". -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
