In shocking news the CentOS project announced today that they are shifting their Linux distribution to be based on the beta (non-stable) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, rather than the stable branch. And that
Yeah, I don’t think that CentOS Stream thing itself is necessarily a bad idea, but they could’ve called that “RHEL Beta” and not cannibalized a project, which’s whole shtick has always been that it is just RHEL without support contract.
Well, at least the CentOS-type projects don’t rely on IBM to be best friends with them and the community can just put out another such effort.
Yeah, I don’t think that CentOS Stream thing itself is necessarily a bad idea, but they could’ve called that “RHEL Beta” and not cannibalized a project, which’s whole shtick has always been that it is just RHEL without support contract.
Well, at least the CentOS-type projects don’t rely on IBM to be best friends with them and the community can just put out another such effort.