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by _ph_ 2015 days ago
Depending what exactly you want, CentOS is still a great choice, especially if you are also using the machine for more than set serving jobs. My understanding is, that CentOS will be exactly in the middle ground between Fedora and Red Hat. So it will be ahead of Red Hat a bit, which is a good thing if you want more current software versions. But not quite as cutting edge as Fedora. Personally, I am fully on Fedora for my development machine as I want current versions of software. I didn't have stability problems with it.

There seems to be also a (planned?) free version of Red Had, if you want complete stability and only security updates.

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>My understanding is, that CentOS will be exactly in the middle ground between Fedora and Red Hat.

Not "exactly the middle ground", so much as

Fedora ---------------------------------------->> CentOS Stream -->> RHEL

At any given time CentOS Stream is only a couple months ahead of RHEL, that is not remotely true for Fedora.

Thanks, that means even more it still is a good choice for people who are more oriented towards the stable RHEL.