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.
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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