[CentOS] CentOS 8 future

Pete

pete at petermblair.com
Sat Dec 19 06:11:34 UTC 2020


At 13 December, 2020 Simon Avery wrote:
> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> 
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 at 23:55, edward via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> > appears facebook is running centos stream and also helping developing
> > centos.
> 
>  A small but important point of order on that statement, based on the
> article you link;
> 
> "an operating system they derive from CentOS Stream. "
> 
> So Stream is the starting point which Facebook then does "facebook things"
> to and forms their own in-house distro. They're not running Stream.

A few engineers from the OS team at fb gave a talk in brussels earlier this
year. It explains what's different from vanilla stream and what the facebook
things that go into it are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_Nd3crBuA

Skip to 23:30 where they start talking about stream.


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