CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by posix_me_less on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:29PM (#25348461)

Because CentOS was once an independent project and Redhat promissed to keep Centos 8 alive till 2029.

Security patches are not backports, they are security patches that obviously should be for free, Redhat is making loads of money off free software already.

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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by mrweasel on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:38PM (#25348608)

Something like RHEL 6 is running on a 2.6 Linux kernel, all security patches has to be backported. That is an EOL kernel. Almost all versions of the software bundled with RHEL 6 have been EOL from upstream providers during it's ten year lifetime. Of cause you're free to try to attempt to applied any patches yourself, you don't have to pay.

If RedHat promised to keep CentOS 8 around for 9 more years, then yes, that is very disappointing. It was a stupid promise to make in the first place, but still disappointing.

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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:34PM (#25350971)

I mean, yes? Backporting fixes and security patches is the entire point of RHEL/CentOS/OEL. And indeed it's upsetting precisely because CentOS was supposed to be supported into 2029 - https://web.archive.org/web/20201101131417/https://wiki.cent...

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