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after reading some info on CentOS stream is a  rolling release. i’m 
wondering applying

updates, upgrades to CentOS stream will use the same commands as before or something new?

thanks

edward

21 thoughts on - Question CentOS Stream 8 Applying Updates

  • It’s not a “rolling release” in the most commonly used sense. There just isn’t a minor number for releases.  CentOS Stream 8 will always be CentOS Stream 8, and never 8.1 or 8.2, etc.  Just one ten-year long release.  At any given point in time, a fully updated system should be backward-compatible with any applications that have run earlier in the release cycle.

  • Yeah, the words “rolling release” ended up in the announcement without anyone really catching that it’s going to have strong implications of something that _wasn’t_ meant. It’s hard to make an announcement like this without having some phrasing that ends up causing confusion of some sort. This one is definitely costing us in extra confusion, but please believe that there’s no hidden messaging here. We’re just all trying to figure out how to best communicate the concepts. I hope the blog posts from Stef and Brendan on the CentOS blog today help clear things up!

    https://blog.CentOS.org/2020/12/CentOS-stream-is-continuous-delivery/

    https://blog.CentOS.org/2020/12/how-rhel-is-made/

  • Il 2020-12-11 19:26 Walter H. ha scritto:

    Is that officially confirmed? If RHEL 8 is expected to have an 8.10
    release sometime in the 2028-2029 timeframe, and if any updates should really hit Stream-8 before, the latter should have the same EOL date.

    What I am missing?
    Thanks.

  • Somewhere in amongst the vast number of posts, someone said that the release cadence for point releases was 6 months with the final release being 8.10 in 2024. After that RHEL 8 goes into maintenance mode and there will be no more content added to 8-stream (because it had reached the end of it’s useful life as a pre point release distro).

    I think it’s still not clear what exactly will be the fate of 8-stream after 2024. The implication is that 9-stream will be active by then and
    8-stream will just disappear. In some ways it would be nice if it was frozen but kept, but it won’t receive any bug/security fixes, so it may be deemed too “dangerous” to allow people access to it. I suppose it’s natural home would be vault.CentOS.org, but we will have to see what RH
    think of that.

    P.

  • Il 2020-12-11 23:53 Pete Biggs ha scritto:

    From what I can read here [1], the latest 8.10 release (due in 2024)
    will be supported for other 5 years, bringing RHEL 8 to the 10 years total support we know.

    So the question is: will Stream-8 follow the same support cycle? Or any Extended life cycle support patch to the RHEL 8.10 release will be considered private?

    This is a very important question and I sincerely hope someone can answer. Thanks.

    [1] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata

  • Il 2020-12-12 15:54 Leon Fauster via CentOS ha scritto:

    Thank you so much.

    This is quite unfortunate. Let’s see if/how well the version upgrade system to upgrade from Stream-8 to Stream-9 works.

    Regards.

  • El vie, 11 dic 2020 a las 15:28, Matthew Miller ()
    escribió:

    In what moment “user” and “community” were replaced by “customers” in CentOS?

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  • It was interesting to look at all UNIXes:

    https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-unix

    (they apparently put into that category Linuxes, BSD descendants, etc.). Of all UNIXes Linux covers 38.8%, whereas BSD only 0.5%. There, however, is 60.7 % of unknown UNIXes. I wonder whether my FreeBSD servers are counted as UNIXes at all, I did run OS fingerprinting against some randomly chosen, and they don’t disclose OS ;-)

    Valeri

  •   with great features like bootable environments, zfs, dtrace,etc  feel kinda bad for solaris OS got less than 0.1%

  • What I was trying to say is: there are some UNIX-like systems which are used by really cautious sysadmins who set things up so that even system fingerprinting can not discover what system the server is running.

    Which covers over 60% of UNIX like systems mentioned on that website. I can not call them UNIXes, as many of them do not pay loyalties to be called UNIX. Incidentally, zfs and dtrace are available on FreeBSD… Just mentioning.

    Valeri

  • El sáb, 19 dic 2020 a las 23:12, edward via CentOS ()
    escribió:

    So was it a commercial decision wrapped in techie buzz…?
    “Professional” does not necessarily mean people that are able or willing to pay for support.

    I feel up to now the predominant tone of communications both fron CentOS
    and RH is as if CentOS **professional** users were stealing something to RH…
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  • Can you point me to where you are seeing this tone in Red Hat and CentOS
    communications? Because what I see is basically the opposite: Red Hat and CentOS saying that’s not the motivation at all.

  • El dom, 20 dic 2020 a las 16:13, Matthew Miller ()
    escribió:

    Edward, thanks for the reply, the tone has changed “if you don’t like CentOS Stream well, you know pay Red Hat”.
    “If you are using CentOS Linux 8 in a production environment, and are concerned that CentOS Stream will not meet your needs, we encourage you to contact Red Hat about options.”

    source: https://blog.CentOS.org/2020/12/future-is-CentOS-stream/

    Is the PR what introduced the doubt about the CentOS Stream reliability…

    I think that Red Hat is in its right to do with CentOS whatever it likes. However there was a CentOS EOL that Red Hat from one day to the next decided that it was not convenient to comply, wasn’t it?

    I think that if CentOS Stream is just good enough to use in production there is no need for Red Hat advertisements in CentOS announcements. The CentOS Community already knew that if it wanted guaranteed support and beyoind it could pay and get Red Hat subscriptions.

    At least there was a communication error.

    If I’m wrong, let me know.
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  • El mar, 22 dic 2020 a las 18:54, Matthew Miller ()
    escribió:

    Let’s see the CentOS Description:
    «A *community project* for ecosystem developers who want to see what is coming in the next version of RHEL and need to introduce changes that enable their hardware or software. It also provides a place to develop technologies and tools so they‘re ready for the next version of RHEL»

    Definitely, is not a CentOS replacement. Again, everything points to Red Hat. I see that the focus is developer. I see no place for sysadmins…

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