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CentOS 8 Ending Next Year To Focus Shift On CentOS Stream
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Originally posted by kylew77 View PostThis is devastating. The company I work for is just starting to transition from CentOS 6 to 7 and now has no upgrade path from 7. We move very slowly so need 10 to 15 years of support. It will be curious to see what management does in light of this decision.
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Originally posted by JPFSanders View Post
That's not what is going to happen, by what can be read in the blog CentOS Stream X will just become kind of Debian Unstable of RHEL X, this is: if you're running CentOS Stream 8 now you will get the updates from the next RHEL point release (IE: 8.4) ahead of RHEL itself.
This means that you get to be the beta tester of the packages on the next RHEL point release if you run CentOS.
Still not sure if this is a good move or not, which doesn't inspire much confidence.
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Originally posted by pmorph View Post
Even testing will have periods when it is broken by "design" (major changes getting integrated). Or at least that's how it used to be when I was running it (admittedly many years ago).
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Most companies who use RHEL I know off, chose RHEL because of the rich community ecosystem that was build around it thanks to having free binary compatible CentOS that could be used to test and build against by open source projects.
This looks like a serious shot into their own foot. It will at most win them some customers short term, but in the long term their product just became worse and less attractive.
Luckily this is Linux and there is competition. I don't think SuSE and Canonical will mind the opportunity
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
Sure, but I was talking about the CentOS becoming a RHEL beta part. AFAIK Debian Testing is what will become Debian Stable, so CentOS Stream is more like Debian Testing than Debian Unstable in that regard.
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Originally posted by duby229 View Post
I'd like to hear how you think its a mistake?
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