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It's another link in the Red-Hat-CentOS-drama chain. I think many IT employees have a vested interest in Red Hat and the direction of "enterprise Linux". Seein

It's another link in the Red-Hat-CentOS-drama chain. I think many IT employees have a vested interest in Red Hat and the direction of "enterprise Linux". Seeing an organization like NASA show a willingness to use a Red Hat alternative gives credibility to that alternative.

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osigurdson 3y ago
Of course, if we do get an established leader, it will ultimately see the same fate as Centos.
- _joel 3y ago
  It's by the guy who setup CentOS originally, no?
dralley 3y ago
Giving users the ability to have a choice in the direction of "enterprise linux" is a large part of the reason that CentOS Stream exists. Previously if you wanted some bug fixed or some feature added you needed to beg Red Hat for it or hope that a paying customer needed it too. Now external parties can contribute to the future release of RHEL (and Rocky, Alma, etc.) So let's say that some Rocky or Alma Linux user or developer wants to make a change. They are RHEL clones, so they can't do that. But they can now contribute the change to CentOS Stream, which is the upstream for both RHEL and their own distro. That change can be reviewed and tested by the community + Red Hat, and then land in RHEL a few months later. This isn't theoretical, to use one example, Facebook uses CentOS Stream in production and contributes back a significant amount. Disclosure: I do work for Red Hat. But it never made sense to me why people say that the "CentOS community was destroyed" when it didn't really have much of a community, it had _users_, which is different. It has more of a "community" now than it did previously, because the development is actually open as opposed to Android-style "throwing bundles of code over the wall".
- adql 3y ago
  > Giving users the ability to have a choice in the direction of "enterprise linux" is the entire reason CentOS Stream exists. Pretty sure it's just for free beta testing
  - freedomben 3y ago
    More than one thing can be true at a time. GP's explanation is one of the reasons. IMHO it's not the primary reason, but it is a legit entry in the "pro" column
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osigurdson 3y ago

Of course, if we do get an established leader, it will ultimately see the same fate as Centos.

_joel 3y ago
It's by the guy who setup CentOS originally, no?

dralley 3y ago

Giving users the ability to have a choice in the direction of "enterprise linux" is a large part of the reason that CentOS Stream exists. Previously if you wanted some bug fixed or some feature added you needed to beg Red Hat for it or hope that a paying customer needed it too. Now external parties can contribute to the future release of RHEL (and Rocky, Alma, etc.) So let's say that some Rocky or Alma Linux user or developer wants to make a change. They are RHEL clones, so they can't do that. But they can now contribute the change to CentOS Stream, which is the upstream for both RHEL and their own distro. That change can be reviewed and tested by the community + Red Hat, and then land in RHEL a few months later. This isn't theoretical, to use one example, Facebook uses CentOS Stream in production and contributes back a significant amount. Disclosure: I do work for Red Hat. But it never made sense to me why people say that the "CentOS community was destroyed" when it didn't really have much of a community, it had _users_, which is different. It has more of a "community" now than it did previously, because the development is actually open as opposed to Android-style "throwing bundles of code over the wall".

adql 3y ago
> Giving users the ability to have a choice in the direction of "enterprise linux" is the entire reason CentOS Stream exists. Pretty sure it's just for free beta testing
- freedomben 3y ago
  More than one thing can be true at a time. GP's explanation is one of the reasons. IMHO it's not the primary reason, but it is a legit entry in the "pro" column
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