> CoreOS seems to be targeting cloud/kubernetes as implementation characteristics, and my "one man shop" gig is the anti-that.

That makes a lot of sense.

> My "day job" uses rhel, and with the recent CentOS end-of-life debacle I'd like to stay both FOSS and .rpm-compatible with rhel.

Most people have entirely missed the point of CentOS Stream[1], and even the founder of Rocky Linux has recently admitted that[2].

If CentOS Stream is going to be just a FOSS upstream for RHEL, will you still pick Fedora Server over it?

[1] https://medium.com/swlh/centos-stream-why-its-awesome-5c45d9...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/09/centos_stream_greg_ku...