On 4/27/21 8:55 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 09:36 -0400, Carlos Oliva wrote:
Thank you for your response Rich. I have heard that Stream is beta releases of RH -- rather distressing. Is this a proper characterization?
You heard wrong.
Stream is effectively a rolling early release of the next point release of RHEL. The packages in stream are fully tested and have gone through QA. They are not beta releases.
With all due respect, - and avoiding the names to not scratch against "release,..." definitions, he is more correct in his feelings (that what you say) which I would formulate as "stream users are sort of Guinea pigs for RedHat releases".
And mind that I have no emotions about it as my servers are FreeBSD for over a decade. And new number crunchers and workstations going Debian since CentOS ceased to be RedHat Enterprise binary replica was such a minor change...
Just my $0.02.
Valeri
The disadvantage of Stream is that it doesn't have the full 10 year support of RHEL and doesn't have the full binary compatibility to RHEL.
P.
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