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On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:35:29 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> On 2026-02-21, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>> On 2/21/26 01:52, rbowman wrote:
>>> https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025081630516261203
>>
>>    Centos CAN be a good base for servers - the RHEL for people with
>>    normal budgets.
>>
>>    However the Gnome4 desktop mess is very off-putting and makes things
>>    much more difficult than they need to be.
> 
> Centos *was* a good base for servers, tracking RHEL without the costly
> Enterprise subscription, but it has become the Rawhide edition of RHEL.

The path is Rawhide => Fedora => Centos Stream => RHEL.