On 12/11/20 12:23 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 12/10/20 6:28 PM, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote:
Allow me to disagree. We both trust Chris Wright's words, don't we? CTO
won't lie. Citing him:
"To be exact, CentOS Stream is an upstream development platform for
ecosystem developers. It will be updated several times a day.
So, like Fedora? People run servers on Fedora now, and I think that's
fine.
This is not a production operating system."
Does he say that CentOS is a production operating system?
As far as I know, Red Hat has never endorsed running CentOS in
production, so I don't understand why it's significant that they also
don't endorse running CentOS Stream in production.
I'm happy you made this point. Yes, CentOS is asssumed to be as
"stable" as the release it's based on, but there are changes.
I think it's good to keep this in mind and consider an actual RH license
if 100% stability and compatibility are the goals.
And even if I reduce the number of CentOS Stream upgrades to
minimal one, the base advantage of CentOS is lost: predictability.
It's really difficult for me to look at a distribution that just stops
getting updates for 4-6 weeks, twice a year, and use the word
"predictable" to describe it.
My first reaction to the announcement was pretty negative, too. But
when I stepped back and looked at the current situation *real*
honestly, I had to admit that CentOS just doesn't offer any of the
things that people are complaining about losing.
And I hope that the CentOS maintainers don't interpret that as
criticism, because it isn't intended to be. They've always maintained
that if you need updates/patches in a timely manner, then you should
be paying Red Hat for RHEL. I agreed with them then, and I still do.
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