[Info-vax] CentOS has been effectively killed for production use

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/10/2020 7:06 PM, Snowshoe wrote:
> On 12/9/2020 9:33 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/9/2020 8:34 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> IBM (who now own Red Hat) has just effectively killed CentOS for
>>> production use by turning it into an unstable rolling distribution:
>>>
>>> https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/09/centos_red_hat/
>>>
>>> Fortunately, at least in the Unix/Linux world, there are always
>>> other options.
>>
>> Supposedly there are about 1000 Linux distros.
> 
> Is there a "best" current Linux distribution? Meaning stable, not loaded 
> with junk or glitz, lots of uses/applications for it. Rather than start 
> a religious war, how about this: Is there a "Linux for VMS Users"?

Lots of options.

I have preferred CentOS for a long time, but I will need to find
something else myself. :-(

I have never liked Ubuntu or SUSE.

Based on what you are looking for then maybe
Arch Linux or Gentoo would be good choices.

Note that I have not used them myself, so
my recommendation is based on hearsay.

Arne