Re: End of CentOS Linux: What about Fedora?

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 06:39:52PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:21:02AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> > It is still a form of a rolling release though, just one with branches. I 
> > think it was actually clear to most of the readers that CentOS Stream is not 
> > Rawhide directly (because then it would be Rawhide, not CentOS Stream), but 
> > that CentOS Stream 8 is the RHEL 8 branch that was branched from Rawhide at 
> > some point early in RHEL 8 development and that of course no longer tracks 
> > Rawhide, but only gets what is intended to land in RHEL 8 at some point. (At 
> > least to me, this was always clear.)
> 
> I'm glad to hear it, because it definitely was not clear to many, and I was
> starting to feel like "many" might be "everyone". :)

It's confusing if you aren't inside this baseball game I would
imagine...

The diagram on https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/centos-stream-is-continuous-delivery/

I think might help?

https://blog.centos.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/fedora-centos-stream-rhel-high-level.v4.png

> > But even though each CentOS Stream "release" is a stable branch of
> > Rawhide, it still in many ways behaves like Rawhide or another rolling
> > release rather than like a release. Here in Fedora, we are used to getting
> > lots of updates to packages, so we may be fine with such a rolling branch
> > (though from the description, I would expect CentOS Stream to be more like
> > Fedora updates- testing than like Fedora stable updates, or is there
> > already strict RHEL QA before something reaches even CentOS Stream?), but
> 
> There is already RHEL QA before it reaches Stream. I can't honestly speak to
> how strict it is, and of course people's standards for that will vary.

https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/how-rhel-is-made/

has some more details.

kevin

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