Is it safe to match them like this?

  • Fedora --> Ubuntu
  • CentOS Stream --> Ubuntu LTS
  • RHEL --> Debian

I know that CentOS stream is more kind of a rolling release but… feels like an LTS distro in practice… or it is just me?

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago
    • RHEL is more akin to Ubuntu LTS with a Canonical support contract.
    • CentOS Stream is more like openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’m not aware of any mainstream apt-based distros that have that kind of rolling release cycle.
    • Fedora is like Ubuntu.

    But it’s not really a 1:1 comparison, since they all have different ideologies when it comes to package management and update cycles.

    • Loucypher@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      Opensure Tumbleweed is more like Fedora Rawhide, they get the absolute bleeding Edge. CentOS stream is downstream of Fedora, so you get less newer packages

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
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        1 year ago

        I disagree, since both Stream and Tumbleweed are rolling releases with solid bases. openSUSE rigorously tests packages before deploying to the stable branch.

        Ultimately, there’s not going to be a perfect analog between all of them, because like I said, they all have different ideologies and packaging goals.