On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 4:33 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:23:59AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > >This is not a production operating system." > > Does he say that CentOS is a production operating system? > > > > As far as I know, Red Hat has never endorsed running CentOS in > > production, so I don't understand why it's significant that they > > also don't endorse running CentOS Stream in production. > > Yeah, I too think this is important context. I don't think you'll ever find > anyone from the business side ever even suggesting that they think CentOS > Linux, the rebuild, was *ever* something Red Hat recommended to run in > production. > > > > In early 2000 I don't think you'll ever find anyone from the business side ever even suggesting that they think Linux (in general) was *ever* something vendors recommended to run in production... but here we are now ;-) And bye bye to AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix (only to mention the OSes I had been involved in at different levels); and I would like to notice that each one of those had its strong points anyway and let me learn much. Business men joked with me when I asked about considering Linux in some context and they replied "Eh, Linus? The cartoon guy?" So what? Please leave business to business