On 1/13/22 1:01 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 1/13/22 09:32, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
In layman's language summary: RedHat Enterprise features (including
"live" kernel patching) are to be expected _only_ in RedHat Enterprise
"binary replica" distributions, which CentOS Stream is not.
I don't think that's true, exactly. As far as I know, rebuild
distributions never had the "Enterprise" features*. Critically, I think
that a lot of people mistakenly believed that CentOS *did* have
Enterprise features, because it was rebuilt from RHEL code, and that
misunderstanding underlies a great deal of the negative response toward
CentOS Stream.
Thanks for correcting my layman's representation. It should have better
said that "binary replica" is "binary compatible" in a sense whatever
software distributed as binary for RHEL will work the same on "binary
replica". I guess my views and wordings got skewed by latest changes of
CentOS paradigms.
*: "Enterprise" features include but are not limited to:
1. Minor releases with independent life cycles / Extended Update Support
2. Classification for updates (security, bugfix, enhancement)
3. Live patching for kernel security vulnerabilities
We never had it in CentOS in the past, but I'm just curious: is live
patching proprietary piece of RHEL? I know there are several solutions,
way back there was paid one called splice, my Boss's son was one of the
developers of that. Just curious, as, if it is paid, it is stripped off
as part of CentOS composition, but if it is not paid, open source, then
it would "just work", or not?
4. Support
Oops, as features I meant functionality of CentOS, nothing beyond that.
Valeri
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