LINUX FOR THE SOUL
Our “Faster Better Servers” feature in LXF278 attracted more than the usual number of letters, and they weren’t solely about the glorious racing car imagery. Some called for a more practical and fairer treatment. OK!
Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes security seriously and the ecosystem is rich with tried-and-tested tooling. This is all inherited by the communities downstream (such as CentOS, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux) making any one of them a fine choice for your Faster, Better servers. It would be good to explore that. Thousands of machines at CERN and Facebook ran CentOS, and perhaps you did too. CentOS 8 will see its support period expire at the end of 2021, as Red Hat concentrate their efforts on CentOS Stream. So some might still be looking to migrate.
And those that have migrated away from CentOS may be questioning their choices. Fortunately, a product of CentOS 8 and any of the new projects to emerge as a result
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