[TriLUG] CentOS 8 will become CentOS Stream in 2021

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 9:21 AM Tim Shearer <timtimminz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Does feel like there's an unclear overlap between Fedora and CentOS, and wonder if Fedora might be for the chop.
>
> Curious what alternative distros people are going to consider if stability is their no.1 priority? Personally I've found the extremely long lifespans of CentOS (and the resulting ancient packages) is difficult to support modern applications on. Debian and Ubuntu LTS provide a better balance between stability and up-to-date packages/kernel for me.
>
      Here is how I have always seen those different releases, so
expect it to be outrageously biased:

- fedora: RH bleeding edge with the latest kernels and packages (if
ported to it). Expect lots of patches all the time (not on the same
level as Arch but you get the idea) and a new release every year or
so. Community support.
- Centos: boring as celery, and stable like it as a result. Good for
servers where stability outranks everything else. And security.
Community support.
- RHES: Centos with newer patches, specially security. You pay for it
so you can call them to get a patch done to address your problem in 4h
flat (that happened to me before).


> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:34 AM Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:39 PM William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > My take on that is that ostensibly they're keeping Fedora as the alpha
>> > test channel, making CentOS the beta test channel, and trying to squeeze
>> > more licensing dollars out of people who were happily using CentOS as a
>> > free RHEL clone.
>> >
>>       I've always thought Fedora was the beta test corner.
>>
>> > William Sutton
>> >
>> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG wrote:
>> >
>> > > https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
>> > > https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q5-does-this-mean-that-centos-stream-is-the-rhel-beta-test-platform-now
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