RedHat Isolate New Code Behind RHEL Subscription

3 years ago by manifex to c/networking

As the CentOS Stream community grows and the enterprise software world tackles new dynamics, we want to sharpen our focus on CentOS Stream as the backbone of enterprise Linux innovation. We are continuing our investment in and increasing our commitment to CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases.

Kazaii 10 points 3 years ago

Very dumb move by IBM Redhat

Jeff Geerling's take was good:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/...

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N0tTheBees 7 points 3 years ago

Luckily rocky linux will take it’s place downstream from RHEL also aiming for bug-for-bug compatibility. and with one the original creators behind it the future is looking solid. I’ve replaced our CentOS instances at work with rocky linux and it’s essentially the same.

edit: I completely missed that RHEL is going closed source and thought this was about CentOS stream. This means rocky (or relatives) won’t actually be a solution for you as can only compile from the stream branch.

Does IBM really have to ruin everything it touches?

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dack 4 points 3 years ago

https://rockylinux.org/...

While this certainly makes things difficult, I wouldn't count Rocky out just yet.

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manifex 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks, appreciate it.

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09874444 1 point 3 years ago

https://almalinux.org/blog/impact-of-rhel-changes/ almalinux also should be fine.

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manifex 4 points 3 years ago

If I'm reading this correctly, CentOS is no longer getting RHEL downstream code, essentially forking CentOS from RHEL. Not great news, but not suprising considering the IBM acquisition.

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AvianCarrier 1 point 3 years ago

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manifex 1 point 3 years ago

I thought Fedora —> RHEL —> CentOS, but I could be wrong.

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AvianCarrier 2 points 3 years ago

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N0tTheBees 1 point 3 years ago

You are correct, CentOS is still downstream from RHEL, whereas CentOS Stream is just ahead of RHEL.

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AvianCarrier 1 point 3 years ago

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manifex 1 point 3 years ago

Ah, so they are putting CentOS as a 'test' before RHEL. That sorta defeats the purpose of CentOS, but whatever.

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