<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have some hope about this… not a lot, but there is one path where it could go well:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In particular, I’m hoping that after CentOS goes stream-only RHEL goes release-only, with regular (weekly?) minor release that are actually versioned together (as opposed to “here are some fixes for RHEL 8.x, good luck explaining where you are without a complete package version map”). The entire idea of a “stream” for enterprise customers is ludicrous.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you are using the CentOS stream, there should be nothing preventing you from locking in at whatever package versions are in the RHEL release you want to be like. If those get published we’re not entirely in the same spot as before, but not completely screwed. TO say it another way, I hope that CentOS Stream will replace RHEL 8 Stream, and that RHEL 8 Stream will go away.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hopefully that works out, otherwise the RHEL install base will begin shrinking because there will be no free place to start.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am not employed by, and do not speak for IBM (or even myself if my wife is in the room).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 9, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Jonathan Buzzard <<a href="mailto:jonathan.buzzard@strath.ac.uk" class="">jonathan.buzzard@strath.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 09/12/2020 14:02, Carl Zetie - <a href="mailto:carlz@us.ibm.com" class="">carlz@us.ibm.com</a> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">CAUTION: This email originated outside the University. Check before clicking links or attachments.<br class="">We don’t have an official statement yet, however I did want to give you all an indication of our early thinking on this.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Er yes we do, from an IBM employee, because remember RedHat is now IBM owned, and the majority of the people making this decision are RedHat and thus IBM employees. So I quote<br class=""><br class=""> "If you are using CentOS Linux 8 in a production environment, and are<br class=""> concerned that CentOS Stream will not meet your needs, we encourage<br class=""> you to contact Red Hat about options."<br class=""><br class="">Or translated bend over and get the lube out.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">JAB.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420<br class="">HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.<br class="">University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br class="">gpfsug-discuss at <a href="http://spectrumscale.org" class="">spectrumscale.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" class="">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>