On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:03 AM Christopher Wensink < cwensink@five-star-plastics.com> wrote:
Understanding the flow of packages, is it a fair comparison to say that moving forward: Fedora packages could be considered alpha/beta releases of apps Centos/Stream could be considered beta / Pre-release / Release candidates of packages / partially stable RHEL official releases would be considered final release / stable
Where as before (done 12/2021) Fedora Packages would be beta / pre-release then RHEL and CentOS were final release / stable - one with commercial support and the other with community only support.
Is that accurate?
Eh, that's something of a mixture of metaphors and facts. Let me make a few approximate details plain.
For RHEL 8 the base inheritance went like this: F27 -> RHEL 8 Alpha (internal) F28 -> RHEL 8 Beta (public) 8 Beta -> RHEL 8.0 8.0 -> RHEL 8.1
There were significant differences in kernel and of many cherry picked patches and rebases from upstream, but that was the baseline.
For RHEL 9 it should look more like this (this is an approximation): Rawhide (pre-F34) -> ELN -> RHEL 9 Alpha (internal) F34 -> CentOS Stream 9 -> RHEL 9 Beta CentOS Stream 9 -> RHEL 9.0 CentOS Stream 9 -> RHEL 9.1
Similar to 8 there will be some cherry picked patches, rebases from upstream, etc, before things are 100% CentOS Stream, but the above is the approximate expected flow that shows how Fedora and CentOS Stream interact with a new major release, and the position of CentOS Stream as it relates to RHEL.
On 12/9/2020 12:54 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:40:22AM +0000, J Martin Rushton via CentOS
wrote:
And exactly the same applies to senior (or retired) admins on their home computers. My main home machine runs about a dozen testbed VMs, DHCP/DNS for the home network, Amanda, NFS and Samba for other machines, ownCloud, Apache, Zotero and DokuWiki for the family. I want a stable server under that lot, not a beta release.
CentOS Stream will not be a "beta release". That's not how RHEL minor release development works. I personally think that it's going to be
stellar
for your exact use case.
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