[CentOS] What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

Wed Dec 16 18:24:08 UTC 2020
John Plemons <john at mavin.com>

I have a DEC Alpha sitting in my warehouse collecting dust what a great 
machine it was.. Was sorry to see Linux Support die for it..

john


On 12/16/2020 1:18 PM, R C wrote:
>
> On 12/16/20 11:10 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> On 12/16/20 11:24 AM, R C wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/16/20 8:11 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>>>> But the Red Hat-based ecosystem version of that second group is 
>>>> on-topic, as the same sort of enthusiast exists here and has been 
>>>> very vocal about this change.
>>> Well yes it is, but it started with a remark about licensing. I 
>>> don't use Windows much, not even a handful of times in the last 
>>> decade. Thing is that MS has something called their "Developers 
>>> Network" (named something along those lines). If you're in higher 
>>> education, R&D etc you can be in that network, in sortof an R&D 
>>> category, for 'free'. ...
>>
>>
>> I have a whole shelf full of MSDN CDs and binders; it wasn't free, 
>> but it wasn't terribly expensive either.  In some cases the 
>> activations/keys for the software expire after a few months. Still 
>> have the last Windows 2000 Beta CD for the DEC Alpha architecture 
>
>
> DEC  remember that..    the other day I ran into a  windows 95 box, I 
> might even have an old drive with windows for work groups *lol*
>
>
>> here in that set.  Something similar for RHEL beyond the 
>> single-entitlement developer subscription would be cool.
>
>
> But all kidding aside;  It would be cool to have an MSDN equivalent 
> for RH for those that do a lot with RH, and that "take their work home 
> and vice versa". That is what I use(d) Centos for, at home that is
>
>
>>
>>
>>> For example, I was messing with kubernetes in a few ways.  redhat 
>>> provides a license for RHEL, that you can use for that purpose for 
>>> free, BUT you can have only have one license. 
>> Yes, which makes it a bit difficult to mess around with kubernetes. 
>> That particular case would be covered resonably well by CentOS 
>> Stream, though, since the major part of kubernetes' behavior isn't 
>> going to change radically within a point release cycle.
>>
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