CentOS - Dec 2020 - What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?

On 15/12/2020 15:29, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
wrote:
> Good day from Singapore,
> 
> What are the differences between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream?
> 
> At the moment, I only know that CentOS 8 support will end on 31 December
> 2021 while Red Hat Inc will shift its focus to CentOS Stream.
> 
> Is CentOS Stream going to be very similar to Fedora Linux, shipping with
> the latest Linux Kernel like 5.10.1?
> 
No. Stream kernel updates will be updates on the (current) path from 
RHEL8.3 -> RHEL8.4 so the base kernel will always be 4.18.0 (for Stream 
tracking RHEL8)
> I am looking forward to hearing from you.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
Some notable differences:

1. 5 Years support versus 10 years support on RHEL/CentOS Linux.

2. Kernel updates break 3rd party out-of-tree kernel drivers.

3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of each 
package in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll back 
broken packages.

> On Dec 15, 2020, at 12:07 PM, Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>
wrote:
> 
> 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of
each package in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll back
broken packages.
Really? I hadn't appreciated that.  How does one the contribute back to
RH/the community by checking at what point something broke?

Am 15.12.20 um 18:07 schrieb Phil Perry:
> 3. 'dnf downgrade foo' doesn't work as only latest/one copy of
each
> package in Stream repository so no opportunity to downgrade/roll back 
> broken packages.
thanks to bring this up - this is a big issue. How could we communicate 
this? Bugzilla? Anyone listing here?

--
Leon