[CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

Johnny Hughes
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:56:41 -0000

On 12/8/20 1:04 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Rich Bowen wrote:
>
>> The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next
>> year we?ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of
>> a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will
>> end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date,
>> serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
>
> I suppose I understand the negative feedback -- CentOS 8.x will no
> longer be a rebuild of RHEL 8.x but will instead be some version of RHEL
> 8.(x + 1) -- but I'm much more interested in empirical results than in
> suppositions. I've taken a couple test VMs and set them to CentOS 8
> Stream and will keep an eye on them. They will either prove stable or
> not, but (observation > guessing) in my book.
>
> If history is any guide, they will prove very stable. If not, then I'll
> pour one out for CentOS and look elsewhere.
>

Which is the approach I recommend everyone take.

And, it will likely be sometime mid to late 1st quarter 2021 before
CentOS Stream is in its 'Fully Functional' state with community pull
requests and the RHEL package maintainer doing all the work in CentOS
Stream, etc .  CentOS Linux 8 will still be available and updated until
the end of December 2021.