On 12/15/20 5:11 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 5:04 PM Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 12/14/20 8:25 AM, James Pearson wrote:
Nicolas Kovacs
Here's an interesting read which makes a point for CentOS Stream:
https://freedomben.medium.com/centos-is-not-dead-please-stop-saying-it-is-at...
tl;dr: Communication about Stream was BAD, but Stream itself might be a
good
thing. Here's why.
As others have said, it misses the _really_ important bit about the
traditional CentOS model which is to follow the RHEL ~10 year life cycle>
It doesn't matter how good/rock solid/whatever CentOS Stream turns out
to be, but if it only has a 5 year life cycle for each major release, then it no good to me (and I suspect many others)
There is a 2 year overlap with the next version of stream as well .. in this case CentOS Stream 9. How long is Debian or Ubuntu LTS maintained for free?
5 years may not be long enough for you .. but it certainly pretty long. And I am TRYING to get that extended. I may not be successful, we'll have to see.
The article also mentions "CentOS will no longer be old, crusty, and
barely alive, trailing RHEL by months at times" - then why didn't Redhat put resources into CentOS to improve that?
Do you have any idea how much money Red Hat is paying to maintain CentOS. And they are maintaining CentOS 7, even now, until 2024. There are dozens of machines and several administrators to maintain them.
Redhat must have known, that if they killed off traditional CentOS, then
users will simply go elsewhere for a RHEL rebuild ?
If you chose not to use CentOS Stream, that is up to you. What is the OS of your TV set. What is the firmware of your computer. Those things are now pretty much irrelevant and commoditized.
At some point the underlying OS is going to be much less important and the important part will be the layered parts that contain your apps and not the OS Layer.
If you want a RHEL clone, that's fine. There will be one available. Someone will make one.
The real and complete vision of what CentOS Stream will become will not be compolete until around the end of QTR1 2021. If you chose not to try it, that is up to you. I truly think Stream will be a much better and more quickly fixed OS when everything is in place.
I don't expect you to answer Johnny, but why didn't Red Hat wait until Stream was "complete'" or ready, or whatever.
I have no idea. I am not saying I completely agree with the timing or the way this went down. But we are where we are now. I still think CentOS Stream is as good as any other "Enterprise" distro out there. I think iti si just as good as Debian and/or Ubuntu.
You guys keep calling it beta .. it is not.
The RHEL team is not grabbing brand new software (like the do in Rawhide, for example) and trying to roll that into RHEL. They are going to do one of three type of updates.
1) A security update
2) A bugfix update.
3) An Enhancement update.
For #1 and #2 .. you want those rolled in and you want them rolled in ASAP. RHEAs do not make up that many of the updates. You are getting these after QA testing a couple months early at most.
Yes, it will not exactly match RHEL .. but how different is 8.2 to 8.3 .. what things run in 8.2 and not 8.3? That is the kind of updates you will be getting.
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