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CentOS failed because it's sponsor willed it to do so. When it went from being focused on long term stability to a rolling release, it was no longer in alignmen
by indymike 5y ago
CentOS failed because it's sponsor willed it to do so. When it went from being focused on long term stability to a rolling release, it was no longer in alignment with the reason it's users selected it. Since Rocky is being developed by some of the same people that did CentOS, I suspect that things will be just fine... after all, they benefit from being a downstream distribution.
- dralley 5y ago> When it went from being focused on long term stability to a rolling release The approach to "long term stability" has not changed whatsoever. The only difference is whether the updates are delivered as point-release bundles every 6 months, or incrementally. And it's supported for 5 years instead of 10, which is in-line with other free LTS distros.
- indymike 5y agoNope. CentOS stream is ahead of RHEL and has been pitched as a developent version of RHEL. Prior to the change, CentOS was basically a complete opensource RHEL with long term support. https://thenewstack.io/back-to-the-future-a-look-at-centos-streams/ https://thenewstack.io/back-to-the-future-a-look-at-centos-s...