Am 09.12.20 um 04:18 schrieb Mike McGrath:>
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 7:30 PM Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel
> <centos-devel at centos.org <mailto:centos-devel at
centos.org>> wrote:
>
> Am 08.12.20 um 23:22 schrieb Matthew Miller:
> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:44:36PM -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
> via CentOS wrote:
> >>> CentOS 8's future is not looking bright. Recently
deployed
> CentOS8 on my
> >>> production workload and now hearing this. What do other
folks think
> >>> about this?
> >> Speaking only for myself, I am ready to give up on CentOS
(and
> Red Hat)
> >> entirely. Fedora meets all my clients' needs with none of
the chaos.
> >
> > I definitely appreciate the vote of confidence in Fedora!
You're
> not alone
> > in using Fedora in a lot of serious ways.
> >
> > However, I really encourage everyone to give this a chance. This
is
> > (post-Fedora) RHEL development opening up in a new way, and
CentOS is
> > central to it. That's a good place to be!
> >
> >
>
> Its important to distinguish two aspects here in this whole discussion.
>
> Its great that RH opens their "firewalls". CentOS Stream is
great
> for that but what actually pissed the people off is the termination
> of CentOS8 Linux. So all arguments for C8S doesn't touch the
problem
> that people have now. And no - C8S is not a valid substitution. Its
> valid for a different usage scenario that is of course worth to get a
> chance but the mentioned problem don't get addressed ...
>
>
> I agree the timing of this isn't great but keep in mind the vast
> majority of CentOS users are on CentOS Linux 7, they have the full
> lifecycle they expected.
>
> The relatively fewer that are on CentOS Linux 8 have some decisions to
> make.? The end of 2021 is sooner than they were expecting *but* there is
> a fully available upgrade path from CentOS Linux 8 to CentOS Stream 8
> (IE: not a reinstall), and that will take them to 2024.? That's half of
> the 10 years they might have expected, but it should let them give
> Stream a try and see if it is for them or not.
If "Stream" is the base for the next RHEL8.x where are the updates
until
2029 coming from, when CentOS Stream 8 will be shutdown at 2024?
--
Leon