[kwlug-disc] CentOS to become CentOS Stream

[Bob Jonkman]

There's already a new fork of RHEL made by the person who started 
CentOS, called Rocky Linux.

And lots of other concerns, including the short-circuiting of CentOS 
Linux 8 from It's FOSS:

https://itsfoss.com/centos-stream-fiasco/

--Bob.



On 2020-12-08 7:27 p.m., Digimer wrote:
> The key here is "and are concerned that CentOS Stream will not meet your
> needs".
> 
> I suspect the majority of people this applies to should already be on a
> commercially supported distro.
> 
> Personally, we're heavily vested in CentOS and RHEL, and I am not
> worried about this change. CentOS will become where they do final
> testing of patches and updates before going into RHEL proper, giving an
> extra buffer to RHEL itself. I don't see things fundamentally changing
> for CentOS users.
> 
> If anything, CentOS users will get patches first... So while one hand
> may take, another gives.
> 
> digimer
> 
> On 2020-12-08 5:31 p.m., Ron Singh wrote:
>> I wonder if they are essentially pushing CentOS users with production
>> machines to get all kinds of licenced up with RedHat?
>>
>> As per their words --
>> "If you are using CentOS Linux 8 in a production environment, and are
>> concerned that CentOS Stream will not meet your needs,
>> we encourage you to contact Red Hat about options."
>>
>> This comes across as, "hey you freeloaders, get over here and pay up!".
>> Yeah? No?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron S.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:21 PM CrankyOldBugger
>> <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com <mailto:crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      This announcement from CentOS is a bit troubling, if I'm reading it
>>      correctly...
>>
>>      https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html
>>      <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html>
>>
>>      To quote:
>>
>>      The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next
>>      year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat
>>      Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a
>>      current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end
>>      at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date, serving as
>>      the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
>>
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