On 4/27/21 8:55 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 09:36 -0400, Carlos Oliva wrote: >> Thank you for your response Rich. I have heard that Stream is beta >> releases of RH -- rather distressing. Is this a proper characterization? >> > You heard wrong. > > Stream is effectively a rolling early release of the next point release > of RHEL. The packages in stream are fully tested and have gone through > QA. They are not beta releases. > With all due respect, - and avoiding the names to not scratch against "release,..." definitions, he is more correct in his feelings (that what you say) which I would formulate as "stream users are sort of Guinea pigs for RedHat releases". And mind that I have no emotions about it as my servers are FreeBSD for over a decade. And new number crunchers and workstations going Debian since CentOS ceased to be RedHat Enterprise binary replica was such a minor change... Just my $0.02. Valeri > The disadvantage of Stream is that it doesn't have the full 10 year > support of RHEL and doesn't have the full binary compatibility to RHEL. > > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++