Am 10.12.20 um 16:51 schrieb Pete Biggs: > >> when someone has installed a CentOS 7.1 in the past, >> >> and did 'yum update' regularily, his/she got a CentOS 7.8 now without >> any reinstallation procedure or other complications; >> >> when the same wanted to update to CentOS 8 he/she had to do a new install; >> >> what happens to CentOS Stream? >> >> when some is now installing CentOS Steam and will do >> >> 'dnf update' or 'yum update' regularily in the future, >> >> what does he/she get till the "end"? >> >> is this a rolling release like Win10 which doesn't need to be >> reinstalled now and in future? >> (the fact that hardware can break is not the question) > > Yes, you just continually get updates in 8-stream. There's no quantised > point releases. A fully updated 8-stream install is the equivalent of > the last point release of RHEL8 plus some other bits and those other > bits will accumulate over the 6 months and eventually form the next > point release. > > You will continue to get updates in 8-stream until the last RHEL8 point > release (8.10) in 2024. It is unclear to me what will happen then - > will 8-stream remain dormant and get security fixes only? No. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-December/075532.html > Will it be removed completely (either deleted or put in vault)? Retired+Vault: https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q13-can-i-start-up-a-sig-that-will-maintain-centos-stream-8-after-rhel8-reaches-the-end-of-full-support > Will there be an "upgrade" mechanism to get to 9-stream? C9S will be based on ~F34. Someone mentioned a path elsewhere. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-December/352366.html -- Leon