"With CentOS upstream it’s probably net-neutral from a value perspective. It will lower RHEL development costs, but incur sales costs. That’s better than a net loss."
"Also, remember, when you run something for $0, you take full and complete responsibility for it."
"If Red Hat was upsetting RHEL users with a bunch of unstable live testing, how would Red Hat even have paying customers? The fact is, every dot release, RHEL users have been absorbing this change without a problem for years and years and years."
"The magic of RHEL stability has always come from the engineering model of how we do things."
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It has been a wild two days. I'm not going to defend the decision to end CentOS Linux 8 (CL8) early, but I do want to correct some of the FUD around CentOS Stream 8 (CS8). 1/7
"I'm switching to Ubuntu because CS8 is too different from CL8."
By all means use whichever distro works for you. But if you think CS8 is "too different", then you are in for a rude awakening by switching to a completely different distro. 2/7
"I can't use CS8 because it isn't stable."
Red Hat has a vested interest in it being stable, because it contains the fixes and enhancements that are planned for the next RHEL8 minor release. Any pain inflicted on CS8 users could affect RHEL8 customers a few months later. 3/7