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So basically, instead of CentOS being as stable as RHEL, they're positioning it in between Fedora and RHEL stability. Basically the Debian Testing branch for RH

So basically, instead of CentOS being as stable as RHEL, they're positioning it in between Fedora and RHEL stability. Basically the Debian Testing branch for RHEL. This is just a rebranding move to push businesses that were using CentOS to actually buy a RHEL license, lol.

trasz 6y ago
Wait, RedHat owns CentOS?
- jnkl 6y ago
  Yes. https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janu...
  - jnkl 6y ago
    And btw: Red Hat is IBM.
    - colejohnson66 6y ago
      Well, subsidiary, but yes
- SparkyMcUnicorn 6y ago
  I always considered CentOS to be (roughly) RHEL without the support. RHEL is nearly identical in practical use because they use the same libraries and tooling for the most part. I guess I've always just assumed CentOS was "Free RedHat".
bitcharmer 6y ago
> Generally speaking, we expect CentOS Stream to have fewer bugs and more runtime features than RHEL until those packages make it into the RHEL release So basically not what your comment is trying to imply here. Also, what is "lol" about it?
- ojnabieoot 6y ago
  Not what stability means in this context - naively, CentOS Stream is considerably more likely to lead to broken development builds, inscrutable library inconsistencies, driver weirdness, etc, than the previous distribution model. It also poses ugly questions for teams who need certified processes or strict security requirements. I could be missing something and I don’t think the motivations are strictly mercantile, but this does make CentOS Stream much less appealing (compared to RHEL) than CentOS 7/8. I am personally not that affected by all this (my org uses RHEL) but it’s a huge hassle for a good number of serious CentOS users.