Am 08.12.20 um 21:56 schrieb Johnny Hughes:
On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote:
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.
I suppose I understand the negative feedback -- CentOS 8.x will no longer be a rebuild of RHEL 8.x but will instead be some version of RHEL 8.(x + 1) -- but I'm much more interested in empirical results than in suppositions. I've taken a couple test VMs and set them to CentOS 8 Stream and will keep an eye on them. They will either prove stable or not, but (observation > guessing) in my book.
If history is any guide, they will prove very stable. If not, then I'll pour one out for CentOS and look elsewhere.
Which is the approach I recommend everyone take.
And, it will likely be sometime mid to late 1st quarter 2021 before CentOS Stream is in its 'Fully Functional' state with community pull requests and the RHEL package maintainer doing all the work in CentOS Stream, etc . CentOS Linux 8 will still be available and updated until the end of December 2021.
FAQ:"Updates for the CentOS Stream 8 distribution continue through the full RHEL support phase."
What does this "full" exactly means? Will C8S be "closed" in May 31, 2024 [*] but RHEL8 still supported through Maintenance support mode until 2029?
* https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/#Life_Cycle_Dates
-- Leon