On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:41 AM Pete Biggs <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think what a lot of people are concerned about is the rolling-release
> > > aspect of this. There will be no definitive versioning of CentOS in the
> > > future - all you will be able to say is "fully updated" and it won't be
> > > possible to slot a CentOS system in to exactly match a RHEL version.
> > > Will third party RPMs built against RHEL 8.x be installable on a CentOS
> > > 8 Stream system? The answer is surely "it depends", but there are a lot
> > > of hardware vendors that target drivers to RHEL releases, which may
> > > well make CentOS non-viable for hardware that doesn't have drivers
> > > built in to the kernel.
> >
> > Generally if they follow the ABI guidelines I would expect it to work.
> > Those are here:
> https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel8-abi-compatibility
> >
> > For loadable kernel modules there's a kernel ABI.
>
> Yes, and many things work well. My most recent issue was that kit
> supplied by HPE (sorry, it's pain is stuck in my mind) had a RAID
> controller that needs a driver disk during install - doing the install
> time drivers is not a problem, the problem is that they don't support
> CentOS, hence I had to use a RHEL driver and out of the 5 available for
> RHEL7/8, only one of them worked with a CentOS release. HPE support
> don't want to know because they don't support CentOS.
>
> I know this comes under the heading of "Corporate RedHat Policy", but
> is RedHat going to do the right thing by CentOS 8 Stream to the level
> of lobbying other behemoth corporations such as HPE or Dell to support
> it?
>
As CentOS Stream grows, I expect many companies who sell hardware will
become active members of the community.
--
Brendan Conoboy / Linux Project Lead / Red Hat, Inc.
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