CentOS - Jan 2021 - CentOS Stream suitability as a production webserver

>  but it seems too early in the game to make the decision to depend on
it.  That may change over the course of the next few months.

Yes this is how I feel but conveyed badly in my last. It's currently a
concept and not a viable distro to move to and in some cases there is only
a year to make the move.

At this stage I'm not totally dismissive of Stream either. We already
automatically update our systems with yum-cron / dnf automatic and I'm
reading that if we're already doing that, Stream isn't going to be a
departure i.e. minor version bumps - but I'm still trying to make sense of
the impact in real-terms i.e. what actually changes if we move to Stream.

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 21:59, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 21:32:18 +0000
> Jamie Burchell wrote:
>
> > The uncertainty is frustrating and unsettling.
>
> I certainly agree with you on this point!
>
> Personally, while I haven't made an actual decision on which way
I'm going
> with my own projects, I'm currently leaning toward Oracle Linux.  I
> installed it on a laptop a couple of days ago and what I got was exactly
> what I get when I install Centos on a laptop.  Even my little script to
> convert a stock installation into my custom setup worked as-is, and what I
> ended up with was exactly what I was expecting to see.
>
> I don't have any particular love for Oracle, but since they pay X
number
> of people to keep Oracle Linux current with RHEL and updated, they
> shouldn't have any problems with burn-out or a lack of long-term
interest
> on the part of volunteers that may (or may not) become an issue over the
> course of time with a community-driven distribution like Rocky.
>
> But for the moment I'm more-or-less just sitting on my hands, waiting
to
> see how all of this shakes out over the course of the next few months
> before I take any action to change anything.
>
> Frankly, I'm kind of hoping that Rocky turns out to be "the new
Centos",
> but it seems too early in the game to make the decision to depend on it.
> That may change over the course of the next few months.
>
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On 1/5/21 2:27 PM, Jamie Burchell wrote:
> We already
> automatically update our systems with yum-cron / dnf automatic and I'm
> reading that if we're already doing that, Stream isn't going to be
a
> departure

I'd have said the same:? If you trust CentOS enough to update 
automatically, then Stream will be an easy migration for you. You'll get 
a distribution that's just as trustworthy, with the added benefit that 
you'll get security fixes much sooner than CentOS did.

> but I'm still trying to make sense of
> the impact in real-terms i.e. what actually changes if we move to Stream.

You'll get updated versions of software when they're ready, rather than 
once every 6-8 months.? They'll be roughly the same versions that RHEL 
will get later.