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

Wed Dec 16 18:39:09 UTC 2020
R C <cjvijf at gmail.com>

On 12/16/20 11:24 AM, John Plemons wrote:
> 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..
>

I used to work at a university, where one of my colleagues has (I think 
he still has it) a pdp11/10

You know, paper tape, an actual TTY (also paper). Every so much time he 
needs to replace capacitors, and

sees if he can fire it up, and shows students how to program it.(no 
Linux for it I think, haha)



> 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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