On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:00 AM Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
There is also no reason 3rd party devel will not support Stream. It is absolutely in their best interest to do so.
It depends upon the type of vendor. Most vendors have the exact opposite premise. They do the absolute minimum testing, and they delay updates.
In the case of IBM Rational ClearCase, for example, they provide support at least 90 days after the availability of the RHEL minor release.
In the case of several hardware vendors - we are still stuck with RHEL 4, 5, and 6 in production use cases, because they either don't support 7, or only their newest version supports 7.
I don't agree with them. But, especially when it comes to specialized use cases - and the choice of products are 1) bad or 2) worse, we are limited in our deployment choices. Most of these vendors only barely acknowledge the existence of CentOS. I don't see them acknowledging CentOS 8 Stream for a very long time.