On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:10 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/10/20 4:19 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > I do > > want to say that with CentOS Stream, we're committed to developing a > > stable and world class project that literally produces RHEL. I hope > > in the future if you decide to revisit your OS choice that you take a > > moment and see what we're doing here. I think you might find that > > we're working very hard to avoid the things you're concerned about, > > because we*need* to avoid those same things in RHEL anyway. > > > I think it might be fair to say that CentOS Stream can't accomplish Red > Hat's goals if it has no users, and it won't have any users if it isn't > reliable. The people who are alarmed that CentOS Stream will be > suddenly unreliable aren't thinking clearly about Red Hat's intent for > that distribution. > > It's obvious Red Hat wasn't thinking clearly. I'm not concerned about the reliability of CentOS stream since I won't be using it. Ever. It may be awesome, but it is not what CenOS was, a recompile of RHEL X.X. And it's not ever going to be what we were promised we would have, over and over and over, a supported CentOS 8 through May 2029. We've been screwed. Plain and simple. -- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20201211/2ffbf053/attachment-0005.html>