On 4/27/21 11:45 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: <snip> > In other words, both of the following are true (IMHO): > > A. Johnny's rigorous statement of what CentOS now is (or yours, it > doesn't actually matter who rigorously states it, but Johnny's seemed to > really cover all aspects - maybe it's just my reading though) > > B. "CentOS is binary replica of RedHat Enterprise Linux" statement is > not true as far as new releases are concerned, i.e. not true to build > one's future on it > > > > But as everyone is agreed it is counter productive to ponder these > things, I will end my side of it by reiterating: > As was stated at Red hat summit though .. while Stream will not be a copy of the downstream RHEL code anymore .. it WILL BE extreamly similar to RHEL + a couple months. In fact at 8.4 release .. Stream is very similar t0 RHEL 8.4 with NO WAITING. CentOS Linux 8 getting upgraded to the 8.4 source code, tested, isos created, etc .. will take a month or so, Stream already has all that content in it RIGHT NOW. I think that is a positive , not a negative. <snip>