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by spijdar 2025 days ago
CentOS releases were supported for something like 8 years, while Fedora releases a new OS every ~6 months. It does support up to 2 older versions with updates, but that means potentially breaking major upgrades every 6-18 months, compared to once every 8 years.

Debian, OTOH, has a much longer release cycle, and more of a reputation for moving like molasses, which for better or worse mirrors CentOS a bit more closely.