I agree. The development "cycle" is Fedora (a combo of alpha/beta testing of the "new" Redhat), then Redhat X (with paid support), and CentOS X (which is Redhat X with no paid support.) CentOS tends to be ultra-conservative and hangs around web hosting installations several version old (my web hosting company is still running clusters of CentOS 5 and 6.) CentOS is stable and the "go-to" if you don't like change (and you can live without the bleeding edge.) Even CentOS 8.0 is OK, although it was released just four days after CentOS 7.7. It probably still has a few bugs, so I'd stick with Centos 7 for awhile.
I ran my Weewx system on CentOS 6 and 7 for over four years. In my view, Centos is an enterprise OS and it was overkill for Weewx, so I switched to an R Pi and Rasbian. That said, CentOS will give you about as stable a Linux platform as any IF you stay away from the latest, greatest release for a few months. CentOS 8.0 will settle down after a few months of updates. CentOS is a "safe" and "stable" Linux distro, but it lags in terms of fancy "Fedora" type bells and whistles by 1-2 years. - Paul VE1DX On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 1:54:05 PM UTC-3, vince wrote: > > On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 9:22:24 AM UTC-7, Jared wrote: >> >> Why is that, just curious. I have no issue with Debian, it's just that >> CentOS is more relevant to me professionally. >> >> >> > Centos7 is fine to use. There are just many many more weewx users on > debian derivatives (raspi) and it's kinda historically the reference > platform weewx was built on. > > Just don't go totally bleeding edge latest centos8 or fedora and expect > everything to work. They tends to break things historically. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/83503cf3-e242-4b6d-9759-6be0d427e25d%40googlegroups.com.
