It’s stable, it has a well maintained package repo, it can handle version jumps better than Ubuntu or CentOS, and it’s VERY well documented. Also, it’s very popular (Ubuntu is based off of it) and it supports FAR more architectures than the others, so you can run …
Ubuntu vs CentOS - Should i stay or should i go? I've been slowly building a Linux environment at work for the past couple of years. Running everything from Elastic stack, MongoDB and several NodeJS applications.
Ubuntu and centos/Rhel all are corporate owned and backed. Just look at what happened with the Ubuntu community council, nobody at canonical gave a crap what they said so it went by the way side until it’s reboot a few months back. And good ol’ IBM/Redhat.. (honestly can’t think of any bad things ATM other than killing centos)
CentOS 7 minimal, and just add packages as you need them. And to /u/qwerty3656 the only reason I went with CentOS is because that's what I'm used to (we use it at work along side Windows). Whether you use CentOS/Ubuntu is really a matter of personal preference though - at the end of the day it's still Linux powering your backend.
15.07.2020 · The biggest difference between CentOS vs. Ubuntu is where the distribution comes from. CentOS is sourced from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Ubuntu is based on Debian architecture. CentOS Based on RHEL Editor's Note: For the purposes of this blog, CentOS refers to CentOS Linux, not CentOS Stream.