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It's not even remotely the same. It's much closer to a rolling release distribution than a stable one. Redhat is unable to guarantee that the same binary will w
by AnonymousPlanet 4y ago
It's not even remotely the same. It's much closer to a rolling release distribution than a stable one. Redhat is unable to guarantee that the same binary will work on Centos 8 in a few months compared to now. That renders Centos utterly unusable for stable environments.
Also, you can't use Centos anymore for test environments. You now have to go with Redhat and the entire licensing shebang when you init your test vms.
- ghaff 4y agoNote that Red Hat never made guarantees with respect to CentOS Linux which was close to RHEL but came out of a different build system.
- rbanffy 4y agoCentOS stream is "Red Hat right now". RHEL releases branch off CentOS.
- matthews2 4y agoIt's not as if they'd suddenly dump breaking changes on CentOS users. Instead of there being a CentOS 8.1, 8.2 etc. there is just a CentOS 8. Similar to how you can enable the 'debian-updates' repository in Debian.
- dralley 4y ago>It's not even remotely the same. It's much closer to a rolling release distribution than a stable one No it isn't. CentOS Stream will never make a change which would be out of place for RHEL to make, which means ABI and APIs (and version numbers for the most part) remain stable for the entire lifetime of the distro. That is wholly incomparable with something like Debian Testing or Arch or Fedora Rawhide which "roll" through major updates all the time.