Well, some people used CentOS as “RedHat Gratis Edition”, and they are mostly still served by it now. On the other hand I know a lot of corporations that used it for binary-identical test systems, to try out patches, etc. for their RedHat primary systems. They have now lost that ability and I know that ditching RedHat as a consequence is very seriously discussed in some of them; They’ve killed something that was seen as “part of the deal”, if unofficially.
Corporate tool here. We used CentOS because we got the compatibility with third-party/ISV software, abi/api stability for 10 years, and slow, heavily tested release cycle of RHEL for free. We bought RedHat support more than once and never got value out of it.
We need that long release cycle, we have software still running on RHEL5 (trying to get rid of it).
Streams absolutely breaks that for us, so now we’re sticking on Cent 7 for the foreseeable, buying a handful of bottom-shelf RHEL licenses, and keeping an eye on Rocky, et al for future direction.
I managed to fight off moving to OEL, at least; fuck Oracle.
At home, I’ve messed with Streams, but most of my stuff is on Fedora anyway, and just runs everything in Kubernetes, so I could take it or leave it.
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Well, some people used CentOS as “RedHat Gratis Edition”, and they are mostly still served by it now. On the other hand I know a lot of corporations that used it for binary-identical test systems, to try out patches, etc. for their RedHat primary systems. They have now lost that ability and I know that ditching RedHat as a consequence is very seriously discussed in some of them; They’ve killed something that was seen as “part of the deal”, if unofficially.
Corporate tool here. We used CentOS because we got the compatibility with third-party/ISV software, abi/api stability for 10 years, and slow, heavily tested release cycle of RHEL for free. We bought RedHat support more than once and never got value out of it.
We need that long release cycle, we have software still running on RHEL5 (trying to get rid of it).
Streams absolutely breaks that for us, so now we’re sticking on Cent 7 for the foreseeable, buying a handful of bottom-shelf RHEL licenses, and keeping an eye on Rocky, et al for future direction.
I managed to fight off moving to OEL, at least; fuck Oracle.
At home, I’ve messed with Streams, but most of my stuff is on Fedora anyway, and just runs everything in Kubernetes, so I could take it or leave it.