[mythtv-users] Recommended Linux Distro post CentOS

[Ben]

> The owner of our company asked me this just last Friday.  CentOS Stream is
> obviously what you are referring to as well.
Yep.
> Just do not use Stream.  Grab the non-Stream ISO.
>

But they're killing it, no?

> Fedora used to be the pre-cursor testing platform for
> RHEL and now that they bought CentOS, (I guess) maybe they want to utilize
> the CentOS engineering expertise for their future releases rather than let
> them keep cloning for no reason.  It will be interesting how this shakes
> out
>
>
Indeed... lots of peeps aren't thrilled.

> I would *never* run
> either variant on a production server, but the CentOS Stream is less
> bleeding edge, but more of a rolling upgrade system.  Makes me wonder is
> RHEL is headed that way like Arch Linux, Gentoo, etc.  It is a *way* better
> model if you do not have your own kernel drivers, etc involved.  I hope
> RHEL moves to this model, because as well all know with the distros that
> use fixed kernel bases for *years* on a release, only the users suffer.
> The stability is great, but the features never come unless you kernel bump
> anyway.  Lokk at this lists threads of people having to enable kernel repos
> to compile MythTV alone :)
>
> Anyway, I think Fedora will still be the baseline for the kernel and
> hopefully Stream will be the moving package repo (hopefully).  Noone really
> knows from the vague reports.  RHEL has actually not released anything to
> confirm these suspicions yet :)
>
> -Greg

Yea - I guess I have time to play and maybe see what works out by then. (shrug)


  -Ben

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