Thank you for your response Rich. I have heard that Stream is beta releases of RH -- rather distressing. Is this a proper characterization? On 4/27/2021 9:02 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:> > > On 4/27/21 8:46 AM, Carlos Oliva wrote: >> Will there be newer versions of Centos? We have heard rumors that >> version 8 will be the last one. We are concerned with using an OS >> that will loose support in the future. Thank you. > > We will continue to produce CentOS Stream for the foreseeable future. > There's some details about the announced changes here - > https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 09:36 -0400, Carlos Oliva wrote:> Thank you for your response Rich. I have heard that Stream is beta > releases of RH -- rather distressing. Is this a proper characterization? >You heard wrong. Stream is effectively a rolling early release of the next point release of RHEL. The packages in stream are fully tested and have gone through QA. They are not beta releases. The disadvantage of Stream is that it doesn't have the full 10 year support of RHEL and doesn't have the full binary compatibility to RHEL. P.
On 4/27/21 9:36 AM, Carlos Oliva wrote:> Thank you for your response Rich. I have heard that Stream is beta > releases of RH -- rather distressing. Is this a proper characterization?No, it is not a "beta". That said, getting people to stop saying that has been unproductive. Mostly, therefore, I'd encourage you to try it and draw your own conclusions. CentOS Stream is more directly integrated into the RHEL development cycle than CentOS Linux was, getting fixes faster, and providing an actual contribution model that didn't exist before.> > On 4/27/2021 9:02 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> >> >> On 4/27/21 8:46 AM, Carlos Oliva wrote: >>> Will there be newer versions of Centos? We have heard rumors that >>> version 8 will be the last one. We are concerned with using an OS >>> that will loose support in the future. Thank you. >> >> We will continue to produce CentOS Stream for the foreseeable future. >> There's some details about the announced changes here - >> https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On 4/27/21 6:36 AM, Carlos Oliva wrote:> I have heard that Stream is beta releases of RH -- rather distressing. > Is this a proper characterization?No, I don't think so.? I think a better characterization would be: Rawhide is a development (beta?) release.? Fedora is a stable release.? CentOS Stream is a stable LTS release.? RHEL is a stable LTS release with semantic versioning of the distribution as a whole (and point releases which are themselves branches of the main release).