[kwlug-disc] CentOS to become CentOS Stream

[Digimer]

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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