On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:10 PM Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/10/20 4:19 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
I do want to say that with CentOS Stream, we're committed to developing a stable and world class project that literally produces RHEL. I hope in the future if you decide to revisit your OS choice that you take a moment and see what we're doing here. I think you might find that we're working very hard to avoid the things you're concerned about, because we*need* to avoid those same things in RHEL anyway.
I think it might be fair to say that CentOS Stream can't accomplish Red Hat's goals if it has no users, and it won't have any users if it isn't reliable. The people who are alarmed that CentOS Stream will be suddenly unreliable aren't thinking clearly about Red Hat's intent for that distribution.
It's obvious Red Hat wasn't thinking clearly. I'm not concerned about the reliability of CentOS stream since I won't be using it. Ever.
It may be awesome, but it is not what CenOS was, a recompile of RHEL X.X. And it's not ever going to be what we were promised we would have, over and over and over, a supported CentOS 8 through May 2029.
We've been screwed. Plain and simple.
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