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

On 7/19/21 2:17 PM, Antonis Kopsaftis wrote:
> 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
> 
Sure .. but just like you are using EL8 right now .. EL9 will be
released before the 8-Stream EOL.  Again .. Have no issues using
whatever, but there will be plenty of time to get Stream 9 up and going
for most loads before Stream 8 EOL.

Yes, some items, if you really need 10 years, would require Alma or
Rocky or Oracle if you don't want to pay for RHEL.
> 
> 
> 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
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Il 2021-07-19 21:38 Johnny Hughes ha scritto:
> Sure .. but just like you are using EL8 right now .. EL9 will be
> released before the 8-Stream EOL.  Again .. Have no issues using
> whatever, but there will be plenty of time to get Stream 9 up and going
> for most loads before Stream 8 EOL.
Any news about in-place migration from Stream-8 to Stream-9?
Thanks.

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Le 19/07/2021 ? 21:38, Johnny Hughes a ?crit?:
> Yes, some items, if you really need 10 years, would require Alma or
> Rocky or Oracle if you don't want to pay for RHEL.
Low risk updates over a ten year support cycle are the number one reason
we've
all been using "classic" CentOS in the first place.

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