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

[Henry Crun]

On 11/12/2020 2:06, 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"?

As a past and current VMS user:
I've been using Ubuntu at home since Warty 5.5, now at 20.04, setup and tuned to my satisfaction.
Did not like some of the things Canonical saw fit to push out e.g. an automatic connection to Amazon (now gone by 
popular demand) and snap packages (which I removed) but being used to DCL made it easy to learn CLI.

Good luck, and welcome.

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