On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:32 AM Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > I thought I saw a reply from Johnny that streams wasn't quite ready, > maybe > > > he will chime in but that's what I thought I saw in a response. > > What, in amongst the hundreds of messages, he said it wasn't ready!! > Why publish a FAQ and a web page telling you how to migrate without a > great big banner across it saying "don't rush, it's not ready yet". Or > better, don't publish anything if the instructions don't work. > > Sheesh. > > P. > > > Here is the snippet that I saw but cannot find the original, underlined the important bits that I saw... On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 22:58 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > >> The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next > >> year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat > >> Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of > >> a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will > >> end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date, > >> serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise > Linux. > > > > I suppose I understand the negative feedback -- CentOS 8.x will no > > longer be a rebuild of RHEL 8.x but will instead be some version of RHEL > > 8.(x + 1) -- but I'm much more interested in empirical results than in > > suppositions. I've taken a couple test VMs and set them to CentOS 8 > > Stream and will keep an eye on them. They will either prove stable or > > not, but (observation > guessing) in my book. > > > > If history is any guide, they will prove very stable. If not, then I'll > > pour one out for CentOS and look elsewhere. > > > > Which is the approach I recommend everyone take. > *> And, it will likely be sometime mid to late 1st quarter 2021 before> CentOS Stream is in its 'Fully Functional' state with community pull> requests and the RHEL package maintainer doing all the work in CentOS> Stream, etc . CentOS Linux 8 will still be available and updated until* *> the end of December 2021. *