Am 10.12.20 um 16:51 schrieb Pete Biggs:
when someone has installed a CentOS 7.1 in the past,
and did 'yum update' regularily, his/she got a CentOS 7.8 now without any reinstallation procedure or other complications;
when the same wanted to update to CentOS 8 he/she had to do a new install;
what happens to CentOS Stream?
when some is now installing CentOS Steam and will do
'dnf update' or 'yum update' regularily in the future,
what does he/she get till the "end"?
is this a rolling release like Win10 which doesn't need to be reinstalled now and in future? (the fact that hardware can break is not the question)
Yes, you just continually get updates in 8-stream. There's no quantised point releases. A fully updated 8-stream install is the equivalent of the last point release of RHEL8 plus some other bits and those other bits will accumulate over the 6 months and eventually form the next point release.
You will continue to get updates in 8-stream until the last RHEL8 point release (8.10) in 2024. It is unclear to me what will happen then - will 8-stream remain dormant and get security fixes only?
No.
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-December/075532.html
Will it be removed completely (either deleted or put in vault)?
Retired+Vault:
https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q13-can-i-start-up-a-sig-that-will-maintain-c...
Will there be an "upgrade" mechanism to get to 9-stream?
C9S will be based on ~F34. Someone mentioned a path elsewhere.
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-December/352366.html
-- Leon