[kwlug-disc] CentOS to become CentOS Stream

[Raymond Chen]

The post on itsfoss clears a lot of my confusion on this. Thank you, Bob.
My team used CentOS as the base of our docker images when we started a
project. But we switched to Ubuntu because CentOS didn't offer patches as
frequently as Ubuntu did. The security scanning kept spitting a lot of
warnings. With Ubuntu it's much easier, just run 'apt-get upgrade'
periodically. But now CentOS Stream is more like Ubuntu, right? 😀

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:35 AM Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

> 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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