The source for CentOS Steam is directly upstream from RHEL. That is the development branch for RHEL. It's EXACTLY what Rocky/Alma wants. They can pull the same branch that is used to make the next release of RHEL. I am not talking about using Stream in production. I am talking about Rocky/Alma (and Suse for that matter) always having access to the source code.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:40 PM Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, from a business-IT perspective, I don’t consider CentOS-Stream to be > in the same support+stability category as RHEL/Legacy-CentOS. I see it more > like a Fedora. What has always comforted me with choosing to deploy CentOS > in enterprise-level, commercial environments was its 100% lock-step > compatibility with RHEL (well, most of the time anyways), and this included > CentOS’s RHEL LTS aspects. > > > > With CentOS-Stream, that assurance (for me at least) no longer exists. > Sure, I can have clients spring for RHEL. But a free 100% RHEL CentOS also > enabled **millions** of VPS, and all sorts of other considerable efforts, > to deploy CentOS at their core with genuine commercial confidence. But no > more. This is why I’m totally rooting for Alma and Rocky, but they are not > without some inherent risk exposure. > > > > At the end of the day, we’re each at least entitled to our own opinion, > right? :) > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows > > > > *From: *Kent Perrier <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Tuesday, October 19, 2021 12:18 PM > *To: *nlug-talk <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [nlug] CentOS replacement?OpenSUSE? Ubu20? > > > > Why use srpms when you have acces to the git repo? > https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:44 AM Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In theory (litigated, or not), yes. But, should IBM cut off access to the >> SRPMS, whose got the money to take them to court over it? Very few other >> commercial entities out there depend on Red Hat’s SRPMS, so there’d likely >> be little incentive to lay down the consider costs to go after them. >> Without those SRPMS, maintaining a free Rocky or Alma (or even having a >> CentOS in the first place) would be next to impossible, at least in the >> sense of mirroring RHEL. Funny how this aspect is often glazed over. Red >> Hat could also share source in a way that makes it much more painful to >> even bother with it. >> >> >> >> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >> Windows >> >> >> >> *From: *Kent Perrier <[email protected]> >> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 19, 2021 8:54 AM >> *To: *nlug-talk <[email protected]> >> *Subject: *Re: [nlug] CentOS replacement?OpenSUSE? Ubu20? >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 6:43 AM Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> And, of course, I can’t help but wonder if it will it eventually get >>> “CentOS’d(ead)” by IBM as well. >>> >> >> What influence does IBM have over Rocky Linux to kill it? 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