CentOS Rolling Release

[Paul Boniol]

So is this what folks were talking about last night?

CentOS goes to rolling release

https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-resets-centos-linux-and-users-are-angry/

Not being a CentOS person, I didn't follow the discussion too closely.

Paul

[da...@wwns.com]

It was not a surprise to see such a plan. It is something close to the
adopt, modify, and extinguish
plan that we have heard of, and this gives them a way to test stuff
before RedHat puts it into their
'stable' releases. I think it is questionable whether businesses will
want to use that platform when
this is going to be the new norm.

Dave

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[Adam Hudson]

Man.  That wasn't what I was referring to Tuesday night, but that is certainly an interesting development.  I've got some homework ahead of me on this; need to see how this is going to affect the v7 servers I've got in my environment.

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[Kent Perrier]

CentOS7 is still supported until the end of 2024. The biggest impact is on CentOS8.

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[Dave]

I thought Fedora served the purpose they're claiming Centos8 Stream will fulfill. I wonder how Fedora fits in that picture now.

[Kent Perrier]

Fedora is "what may be in RHEL9."  CentOS Stream is "what RHEL 8.y+1 will look like". (So, right now, that's RHEL 8.4.)

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[Dave]

Thanks for the clarification Kent

[John R. Dennison]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 02:32:27PM -0800, Dave wrote:
> I thought Fedora served the purpose they're claiming Centos8 Stream will
> fulfill. I wonder how Fedora fits in that picture now.

The flow is Fedora ELN -> Stream -> RHEL where Stream is (effectively)
RHEL X.Y+1. At least this is how it is on paper; how the flow will work
in a few months when the rest of the tooling is in place... that remains
to be seen.

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