On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 2:12 PM Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net wrote:
Once upon a time, Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com said:
They've had to basically focus the stream into local reservoirs which they access with date-stamped local repos, a painful and expensive workaround to re-create releases.
That's kind of the point though: managing point-based releases is not easy or cheap, and expecting that level of support for a free distro maybe just isn't that reasonable. CentOS (even pre-Red Hat) had issues with it sometimes, with point releases taking a while to get released, stopping updates during that time.
Red Hat didn't "discard it for CentOS" specifically. They discarded it for RHEL. It wasn't a welcome change, and it transferred the burden of managing stable releases to the local users. If it had been presented as "this is expensive, we're going to spend the money elsewhere" rather than as a wave of the future that was tried and failed with Red Hat 9 back in 2001, it might have gathered less antipathy.