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Discussion on: Is Ubuntu Or Fedora A Better Distro For Programmers?

 
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Thomas H Jones II

That's great if you work in an industry that doesn't have legal mandates to comply with. But, if you are working in such an industry, your options are kind of limited. Even Ubuntu LTS's security-certifications tend to lag the LTS's initial release by a couple years.

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Thorsten Hirsch

Uhm... what?

woebegone OS like EL7

No. RHEL8 has been released just 6 weeks ago.

  • RHEL7 will be fully supported for another 5 years and gets security fixes as fast as RHEL8.
  • RHEL6 is still supported
  • even RHEL5 (that's what I'd call woebegone) is still supported if you buy extended support