Am 11.12.20 um 09:23 schrieb Gordon Messmer:
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.
To be honest, such argumentation is pointless because anyone knowns that
grey shades in beetween exits. CentOS Linux was more on the bright side,
then Centos Stream will be (in terms of current usage scenarios).
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.
I think a main point(s) at this all is the timing (communication)!
--
Leon
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