On 1/5/21 5:19 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 1/5/21 3:02 PM, Jamie Burchell wrote: >> We will need to (manually) migrate to Stream 9.x after 5 years instead of >> 10 though? > > > Yes. CentOS Stream has a lifecycle comparable with other LTS > distributions. > And as someone mentioned, these other distributions have long great record of system upgrade from one release to another. CentOS has no record (and probably no upgrade engineered yet). In that respect CentOS Stream is way behind Debian (and clones) LTS. Not to mention other potentially problematic areas as no package version rollback, compatibility (potential) with EPEL, and other things I don't what to attempt to think about. As everything with newly architectured distribution which hasn't proven itself during long time suitable for specific things. No disrespect intended. To the contrary: GREAT THANKS to hard working CentOS team for all your past work! And best wished to establish viability of absolutely new - and different - distribution: CentOS Stream. And while people still ask and the list still tolerates, I will mention the system I fled my servers from Linux 6 or 7 years ago to: FreeBSD On average update requiring FreeBSD reboot happens as rarely as once 7-8 Months (Linux on average every 45 days: kernel or glibc security update --> reboot). Good luck everybody who didn't arrive at final decision yet to find you way for the future. Thanks again, CentOS team for the great system you gave us for decades up until now! Valeri > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++