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That is not true. CentOS Stream is just as "LTS" as Debian, Ubuntu, or OpenSUSE - supported for 5 years. This is admittedly not as generous as the 10 years Ce
by dralley 4y ago
That is not true.
CentOS Stream is just as "LTS" as Debian, Ubuntu, or OpenSUSE - supported for 5 years. This is admittedly not as generous as the 10 years CentOS provided previously (and what Alma / Rocky linux have promised to provide), but it's definitely still "long term" by the same definition everyone else uses.
And while CentOS Stream {8,9} does trend slightly ahead of RHEL {8,9} respectively in terms of bugfixes and features, it still maintains equivalent ABI with RHEL {8,9} and is compatible, though not precisely "bug-for-bug" compatible, which even CentOS / Alma / Rocky have never quite accomplished.
disclosure: I work for Red Hat
- josefx 4y agoThat is probably what I get for checking my assumptions against wikipedia. One of the tables on the CentOS page makes it looks as if only CentOS 7 is still supported. On a closer check the table may just be incomplete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS
- dralley 4y agoOof, that table is very wrong. Even the release date for 8-stream is wrong. Thanks for pointing this out.