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Yeah, Stream is okay if you don't require bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL and just want a familiar, relatively stable, rpm-based distro. I would say its role corresponds loosely to Debian testing, whereas Fedora is more like sid.

In reality, though, I've been advising clients to treat Stream as nothing more than a stopgap solution until they can migrate to something Debian-based. We've been burned once by the untimely EOL of CentOS 8, and the continuing drama just doesn't instill confidence in the future of any free-as-in-beer distro related to Red Hat.



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