Why CentOS Streams?

What is/was the intent of CentOS Streams, what problem was it supposed to solve for the RHEL Development Team and package maintainers?

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[ArniesTech]

In fact I really find RHEL's free home use version quite exciting 💪😁

[QuikTechSolutions]

DJ another video containing a wealth of information. Thank you! Have you ever considered putting together an online class? Just a masterful wealth of knowledge.

[dezmondwhitney]

That was a most helpful guide and explanation. Thank You.

[NormanF]

RHEL and its free clones offer support for up to ten years; with Fedora its typically a year although its usually for six months and CENTOS Stream is positioned between them.

[Ruzgfpegk]

So it has nothing to do with the fact that IBM bought Red Hat before the change and probably considered the free CentOS to be a "loss-maker" as companies using it don't have to pay for RHEL licences?

[gauchera]

Great video, finally all those OS and releases make sense.
Thanks for this video

[grokitall]

actually, real cartification is not a problem as most bodies will be quite happy with a full listing of all the tests as proof of complience. only those that make pay a lot to certify a point release are a problem, and those certificates become invalid the moment you apply an update. in fact parts of the us military use ci/cd based distributions to provide infrastructure as a service with quite high standards baked into the pipeline.

[tonywise]

Sounds like a script of a comedy from the 3 Marx Brothers. Seriously though, good info.

[Spongman]

as an ISV shipping commercial software for RHEL, the old Centos was great. Centos streams is broken, we're stuck on RHEL6 because of it.

[jean-pierremessager]

IMHO Red Hat did a big mistake here. Numerous companies used CentOS as a test bed and development platform (including testing) for software aimed to be deployed on "real" RHEL for production (where Red Hat technical support is available). They were confident that CentOS was 100% identical to RHEL. Now they are very disappointed. I've heard a lot about companies switching to Rocky Linux and quite a lot switching to Debian and/or Ubuntu also...

[OSINT_Skye]

the problem is certification. thats what holding back RHEL from developing faster

[SimoAtlas]

No future with redhat they're doing weird stuff lately I wouldn't risk doing anything with them

[gyrgrls]

Ugh. Back to Debian. That's a woody potato, Sarge!