CentOS - Jul 2021 - Difference between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream

On 7/19/21 12:59 PM, Antonis Kopsaftis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Check https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product to find the EOL dates for
> each version of Centos.
> 
> To my opinion the only centos version that is anymore appropriate for
> production usage is version 7. Centos 8 is production ready but the eol
> date is only a few months away.
> 
> I choosed to migrate my centos 8 machines to oracle linux 8 for
> production usage, but many more distros have appeared (almalinux,
> rockylinux, springdale linux, etc). All of them follow the EOL dates for
> RHEL 8.x ( May 2029) and are build from the sources packaes of RHEL.
> 
You are entitled to your opinion :D // but, IMHO ..

If you are not doing anything special with the kernel, then there is
very little difference between CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux.

I would surely rather trust the 1500 RHEL developers who are maintaining
CentOS Stream than anyone else .. but that is just my opinion.
> 
> Regard,
> Antonis Kopsaftis
> 
> On 19/7/2021 7:01 ?.?., Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am confused between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream as per
>> https://www.centos.org/download/. Please guide me on which one I need
to
>> use in the production environment. Is there a difference between CentOS
>> Linux and CentOS Stream?
>>
>> Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Kaushal
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS mailing list
>> CentOS at centos.org
>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>> .
>

Hello,

Even if centos stream 8 is pretty stable for production usage his eol 
date is until 2024 (same as centos 7).
In the following 2 years i will have to migrate my centos 7 servers to 
something newer. I can choose a distro with the same eol date.
I need a distro which much more long eol date.

Finally i choose to trust the oracle developers who maintain the oracle 
linux (based on rhel source packages).
In the future i will also try the almalinux distro (maintained by 
cloudlinux).

Regards,
Antonis Kopsaftis



On 19/7/2021 9:58 ?.?., Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 7/19/21 12:59 PM, Antonis Kopsaftis wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Check https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product to find the EOL dates for
>> each version of Centos.
>>
>> To my opinion the only centos version that is anymore appropriate for
>> production usage is version 7. Centos 8 is production ready but the eol
>> date is only a few months away.
>>
>> I choosed to migrate my centos 8 machines to oracle linux 8 for
>> production usage, but many more distros have appeared (almalinux,
>> rockylinux, springdale linux, etc). All of them follow the EOL dates
for
>> RHEL 8.x ( May 2029) and are build from the sources packaes of RHEL.
>>
> You are entitled to your opinion :D // but, IMHO ..
>
> If you are not doing anything special with the kernel, then there is
> very little difference between CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux.
>
> I would surely rather trust the 1500 RHEL developers who are maintaining
> CentOS Stream than anyone else .. but that is just my opinion.
>
>> Regard,
>> Antonis Kopsaftis
>>
>> On 19/7/2021 7:01 ?.?., Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am confused between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream as per
>>> https://www.centos.org/download/. Please guide me on which one I
need to
>>> use in the production environment. Is there a difference between
CentOS
>>> Linux and CentOS Stream?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Kaushal
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> CentOS mailing list
>>> CentOS at centos.org
>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>>> .
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On 7/19/21 1:58 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> If you are not doing anything special with the kernel, then there is
> very little difference between CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux.
Out of curiosity, do we yet know the frequency of reboot-required
updates (kernel, glibc, systemd, etc.) in CentOS Stream?

For me (and I suspect many others), this is the things that is likely to
make CentOS Stream less "stable" than RHEL, CentOS Linux, and other
derivatives.

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