CentOS - Dec 2020 - CentOS Stream from bottom works, what is this?

The companies that pay for RHEL licenses for production and use CentOS for test
will be left with a large problem.  They will either need to purchase double the
number of RHEL licenses and switch to RHEL for testing or go to another
distribution.  RHEL + 1 will not work for testing application compatibility with
patches.

No company will want to pay double the amount they are currently paying for RHEL
licenses.  This is not even addressing the cost and time it will take to switch
over all the test servers.

This will cost Red Hat credibility with major companies that they might never
recover from.  This will cost Red Hat major business.

I will be recommending that my company change to Oracle Linux 8, instead of
upgrading to RHEL 8.  We will get the same model we are currently using,  Paid
support for production and free for test servers.

Andrea


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On 12/9/20 8:41 AM, Walter H. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried installing a VM from the stream ISO and it worked;
> 
> the only thing I would like to have changed as a default config is
> 
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=".... net.ifnames=0 ..."
> 
> the reason, I find eth0, eth1, eth2 easier to use than cryptic names 
> like ens33 or ens0p3 or so;
> 
> Walter
> 
> p.s. can someone tell in as short as possible what this CentOS Stream 
> is in comparison to CentOS 8?
> 
CentOS Stream is built from the currently released RHEL Source Code + 0.1

So if RHEL 8.3 is released .. Stream is the Source Code (built) that will become
8.4 in a few months.
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On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:03:42PM +0000, Laack, Andrea P
wrote:
> The companies that pay for RHEL licenses for production and use CentOS for
> test will be left with a large problem. They will either need to purchase
> double the number of RHEL licenses and switch to RHEL for testing or go to
> another distribution. RHEL + 1 will not work for testing application
> compatibility with patches.
In the cases where RHEL + 0.1 (note not +1) won't work, I think it's
incredibly likely that this will be covered by the expanded low- and no-cost
RHEL offerings.

Part of the buried lede here is that with more RHEL accessibility, a lot of
the function that CentOS served for users will not be necessary anymore.

> No company will want to pay double the amount they are currently paying
> for RHEL licenses. This is not even addressing the cost and time it will
> take to switch over all the test servers.
Yeah, Red Hat knows this. Hence the above. If you have a specific case,
please email the centos-questions at redhat.com address -- that goes to the
people designing the new programs, not to sales.

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader