[CentOS-devel] Balancing the needs around the RHEL platform

Gordon Messmer

gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 20:47:02 UTC 2020


On 12/23/20 12:23 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On the other hand, CentOS Stream will be backward compatible with 
>> RHEL. Anything that runs on RHEL should continue running on CentOS 
>> Stream.
>
> This is simply not true. Please stop perpetuating this. I have already 
> provided evidence that the current Stream kernel is already not 
> compatible with RHEL and that software that runs on RHEL will not run 
> on Stream.


Right, I get that this isn't true for kernel modules.  The kernel isn't 
subject to RHEL's ABI compatibility commitments.

If you're arguing that I should have said "any user-space software" 
rather than "anything", then I take your point.

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