On 15/12/2020 15:29, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
Good day from Singapore,
What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?
At the moment, I only know that CentOS 8 support will end on 31 December 2021 while Red Hat Inc will shift its focus to CentOS Stream.
Is CentOS Stream going to be very similar to Fedora Linux, shipping with the latest Linux Kernel like 5.10.1?
No. Stream kernel updates will be updates on the (current) path from RHEL8.3 -> RHEL8.4 so the base kernel will always be 4.18.0 (for Stream tracking RHEL8)
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
Some notable differences:
1. 5 Years support versus 10 years support on RHEL/CentOS Linux.
2. Kernel updates break 3rd party out-of-tree kernel drivers.
3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each package in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll back broken packages.