On 1/13/22 1:01 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 1/13/22 09:32, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
In layman's language summary: RedHat Enterprise features (including "live" kernel patching) are to be expected _only_ in RedHat Enterprise "binary replica" distributions, which CentOS Stream is not.
I don't think that's true, exactly. As far as I know, rebuild distributions never had the "Enterprise" features*. Critically, I think that a lot of people mistakenly believed that CentOS *did* have Enterprise features, because it was rebuilt from RHEL code, and that misunderstanding underlies a great deal of the negative response toward CentOS Stream.
Thanks for correcting my layman's representation. It should have better said that "binary replica" is "binary compatible" in a sense whatever software distributed as binary for RHEL will work the same on "binary replica". I guess my views and wordings got skewed by latest changes of CentOS paradigms.
*: "Enterprise" features include but are not limited to:
- Minor releases with independent life cycles / Extended Update Support
- Classification for updates (security, bugfix, enhancement)
- Live patching for kernel security vulnerabilities
We never had it in CentOS in the past, but I'm just curious: is live patching proprietary piece of RHEL? I know there are several solutions, way back there was paid one called splice, my Boss's son was one of the developers of that. Just curious, as, if it is paid, it is stripped off as part of CentOS composition, but if it is not paid, open source, then it would "just work", or not?
- Support
Oops, as features I meant functionality of CentOS, nothing beyond that.
Valeri
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