On 16.12.2020 22:50, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/15/20 9:59 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 7:41 PM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >> >>> $250K is not even close. That is one employee, when you also take into >>> account unemployment insurance, HR, medical insurance etc. now multiply >>> that by 8. Now, outfit those 8 employees to work from home .. all over >>> the world, different countries, different laws. >> >> I'm genuinely curious about something, and this is mostly academic >> since it's probably the subject of proprietary discussions within >> RedHat. Presumably, RedHat had a build pipeline for RHEL that worked >> well for them, by supplying alpha/beta releases of point releases to >> their customers and giving them time to "cook" before releasing those >> point releases into production. Why would RedHat invest millions more >> in buying the CentOS process just to have CentOS act as the beta? > > Why did they change the development process of RHEL .. > > Because they want to do the development in the community. The current > process of RHEL development is closed .. they want it to be open. It is > that simple. > > I think Stream is also very usable as a distro. I think it will be just > as usable as CentOS Linux is now. It's usable, as Fedora is certainly usable - in its separate use cases. It's not bug-for-bug copy of current RHEL, so it's *not* as usable as CentOS Linux was. > It is not a beta .. I keep saying that. Before a .0 release (the main, > or first, main reelase) is a beta. Point releases do not really need > betas .. certainly not open to anyone other than customers. Now CentOS > Stream is available all the time to everyone, customer or not. Once the > full infrastructure is in place, everyone (not just RHEL customers) can > provide feed back and bugs, do pull requests, etc. Now please tell me whether Chris Wright was lying when saying the below to ZDNet: "To be exact, CentOS Stream is an upstream development platform for ecosystem developers. It will be updated several times a day. This is not a production operating system. It's purely a developer's distro." It's purely a developer's distro. Shall I explain difference between a developer's distro and the one suitable for production servers (a rhetoric question)? -- Sincerely, Konstantin Boyandin system administrator (ProWide Labs Ltd. - IPHost Network Monitor)