[CentOS] Moving to CentOS 8 Stream

Wed Dec 9 14:40:20 UTC 2020
Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:32 AM Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote:

> >
> > >
> > > I thought I saw a reply from Johnny that streams wasn't quite ready,
> maybe
> > > he will chime in but that's what I thought I saw in a response.
>
> What, in amongst the hundreds of messages, he said it wasn't ready!!
> Why publish a FAQ and a web page telling you how to migrate without a
> great big banner across it saying "don't rush, it's not ready yet". Or
> better, don't publish anything if the instructions don't work.
>
> Sheesh.
>
> P.
>
>
>
Here is the snippet that I saw but cannot find the original, underlined the
important bits that I saw...

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 22:58 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote:
> >
> >> The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next
> >> year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat
> >> Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of
> >> a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will
> >> end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date,
> >> serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux.
> >
> > I suppose I understand the negative feedback -- CentOS 8.x will no
> > longer be a rebuild of RHEL 8.x but will instead be some version of RHEL
> > 8.(x + 1) -- but I'm much more interested in empirical results than in
> > suppositions. I've taken a couple test VMs and set them to CentOS 8
> > Stream and will keep an eye on them. They will either prove stable or
> > not, but (observation > guessing) in my book.
> >
> > If history is any guide, they will prove very stable. If not, then I'll
> > pour one out for CentOS and look elsewhere.
> >
>
> Which is the approach I recommend everyone take.
>




*> And, it will likely be sometime mid to late 1st quarter 2021 before>
CentOS Stream is in its 'Fully Functional' state with community pull>
requests and the RHEL package maintainer doing all the work in
CentOS> Stream, etc .  CentOS Linux 8 will still be available and updated
until*
*> the end of December 2021. *