One of the Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts (Linux Unplugged, maybe?) had a really good episode about this. I think the title was, "Murder of a Distro".
Apparently, even the Red Hat guy they interviewed doesn't like the way this went down -- so far as intersection of the poor communication of the purpose of the change, the cutting short CentOS 8's lifespan, and the not finalizing and announcing the expanded official free-for-universities/single-deployment RHEL go.
The entire point of CentOS Stream is to let people use it for free, but also contribute patches to it.
The impression I got is thus: CentOS Stream is not the beta-testing Unstable/Sid distro, that would be Fedora/Rawhide respectively, like always. It's more that RedHat is now the equivalent of Debian OldStable but with more eyes still on it, and CentOS Stream is like frozen/slushy Testing.
Mind you, I don't have a pumpkin in this contest, I find all Red Hat distros I've tried painful. Too obsolete (CentOS), too many constant segfaults (Fedora, though admittedly that was a few years ago), and needing too many 3rd-party repos to provide software more appropriate for a home OS (both). Arch and Debian fill the same niches for me.
Apparently, even the Red Hat guy they interviewed doesn't like the way this went down -- so far as intersection of the poor communication of the purpose of the change, the cutting short CentOS 8's lifespan, and the not finalizing and announcing the expanded official free-for-universities/single-deployment RHEL go.
The entire point of CentOS Stream is to let people use it for free, but also contribute patches to it.
The impression I got is thus: CentOS Stream is not the beta-testing Unstable/Sid distro, that would be Fedora/Rawhide respectively, like always. It's more that RedHat is now the equivalent of Debian OldStable but with more eyes still on it, and CentOS Stream is like frozen/slushy Testing.
Mind you, I don't have a pumpkin in this contest, I find all Red Hat distros I've tried painful. Too obsolete (CentOS), too many constant segfaults (Fedora, though admittedly that was a few years ago), and needing too many 3rd-party repos to provide software more appropriate for a home OS (both). Arch and Debian fill the same niches for me.
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