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tadbit | 3 years ago

CentOS 8 was supposed to be supported into 2029. Approximately a year or so after being released that was changed and would only be supported into 2021.

Many people in the CentOS community, even RHEL employees, tried to play it off like they never meant to support it so long, but some time after the announcement they confirmed they did indeed strip away 8 years of the planned support.

This burned a lot of people that had already started deploying systems using CentOS 8 into Production. A lot of time and money has been spent by many people, organizations, and companies rectifying this situation.

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Alupis|3 years ago

Additionally, CentOS has become "CentOS Stream" and no longer is 1:1 with RHEL and considered stable. It's an in-between Fedora (bleeding edge) and RHEL (boring and stable), which means things might change or break, etc... which is sort of the opposite of what your typical CentOS user wanted. Really a missed mark from IBM/RH.

This led to several CentOS replacement distros, including Rocky Linux (made by many original CentOS people), AlmaLinux and others. Both Rocky and Alma are supporting 8.x for 10 years, prompting many CentOS users to switch over.

sheepdestroyer|3 years ago

As I understand it, this is an incorrect representation of what Stream is. Unfortunately I rarely see this misconception corrected.

Stream is only "between" fedora and RedHat until RHEL X.0 is released.

For instance, once RHEL 9.0 development branched from fedora 34, Stream 9 became the upstream and just ahead of all further RHEL 9.X releases, and doesn't depend on fedora anymore.

Furthermore all Stream rpms undergo the exact same RHEL testing and quality validation chain than proper RHEL packages.

As such by using Stream 9, you are arguably receiving the bug fixes that are eventually going into RHEL 9 proper, just in advance a bit.

RedHat engineers have argued that keeping up to date would amount to effectively running a faster fixed (less buggy overall) OS than RHEL.

someone_else_|3 years ago

> It's an in-between Fedora (bleeding edge) and RHEL (boring and stable), which means things might change or break, etc...

This is a misleading explanation.

CentOS Stream 9 stays between RHEL 9.X and RHEL 9.X+1.

Once branched from Fedora CentOS Stream follows RHEL ABI compatibility of that specific major version and doesn't consume Fedora updates.

It is also tested together with RHEL.

mogwire|3 years ago

This is not true at all.

CentOS Streams is the next X-Release of RHEL. I work with RH Partners and we use Streams as a test platform before we move to QE on Beta and RC builds.

This has been refuted by RH many times. You want to be upset they took away CentOS, that is your choice but spreading incorrect information about Streams is simply misleading.