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As far as I can tell, it's going to be similar to Debian Testing, ie. a rolling-release distribution that will have security support. RHEL point releases will t

As far as I can tell, it's going to be similar to Debian Testing, ie. a rolling-release distribution that will have security support. RHEL point releases will then be snapshots of that rolling release with their own security fixes. I can see the use for such a distribution (run CI against CentOS stream to catch any potential breakage with upcoming RHEL changes) but I think the way they went about making this change is ... unfortunate. EDIT: To expand a bit, things may still turn out positive overall if Rocky Linux succeeds and Red Hat doesn't pull off any other silliness. There's an opportunity here for Red Hat to really open up RHEL development to interested parties via CentOS Stream, and so long as they maintain their commitment to publishing RHEL as free software and don't actively interfere with people building their own RHEL-compatible clones from the point releases, everyone wins in the end.

zozbot234 6y ago
It's very different from Debian Testing. The closest comparison is to stable-proposed-updates - any given branch of CentOS Stream is still issuing minor updates for a single CentOS major release. The closest thing to Debian Testing would probably be Fedora, with Debian Unstable being comparable to Fedora Rawhide.
themew 6y ago
Unfortunately, Stream is not a rolling release like Arch. You will still be required to perform a full install of Stream 9 when it's released.
- dralley 6y ago
  That is a very a good thing, not a downside. CentOS Stream is still a decent choice to run a server on (yes, not quite as good as the near-perfect RHEL clone that CentOS currently is), which would definitely not be the case if it was a "true" rolling release distro. To have an Arch-like distro under the CentOS brand would not make any sense.
0x0 6y ago
Debian Testing doesn't really have much in the way of security support, see https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
- lfam 6y ago
  Right, Debian Testing is not supported as an "operating system" in any way. It's just a place for Debian developers to test their changes. I see this misunderstanding all over the net — people think that Debian Testing is more supported than Debian Unstable, when the reverse is true. The Debian project has serious problems with public communications and expectation management.

zozbot234 6y ago

It's very different from Debian Testing. The closest comparison is to stable-proposed-updates - any given branch of CentOS Stream is still issuing minor updates for a single CentOS major release. The closest thing to Debian Testing would probably be Fedora, with Debian Unstable being comparable to Fedora Rawhide.

themew 6y ago

Unfortunately, Stream is not a rolling release like Arch. You will still be required to perform a full install of Stream 9 when it's released.

dralley 6y ago
That is a very a good thing, not a downside. CentOS Stream is still a decent choice to run a server on (yes, not quite as good as the near-perfect RHEL clone that CentOS currently is), which would definitely not be the case if it was a "true" rolling release distro. To have an Arch-like distro under the CentOS brand would not make any sense.

0x0 6y ago

Debian Testing doesn't really have much in the way of security support, see https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing

lfam 6y ago
Right, Debian Testing is not supported as an "operating system" in any way. It's just a place for Debian developers to test their changes. I see this misunderstanding all over the net — people think that Debian Testing is more supported than Debian Unstable, when the reverse is true. The Debian project has serious problems with public communications and expectation management.