Goodbye CentOS Stream 8. I guess we didn't click.

Mon, 09 May 2022 04:25:16 -0800

Writer’s note on March 3, 2024: I think I took this post off my CentOS blog at some point because it might have been too “mean,” or maybe just too “critical.” I felt bad. Being the bull in Red Hat’s CentOS china shop wasn’t a fun role. Since this post was first written, CentOS 9 has been released and feeding into RHEL 9 for some time. I think the way it still goes is that development happens in Stream 9 and then moves to RHEL 9. But critical security patches begin in RHEL 9 and eventually make their way to Stream 9. I’m not sure if there is a regular cadence, but the evidence of patches — especially to Stream’s Linux kernel — really only exists in the changelogs on commits in the CentOS Stream Gitlab.

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Goodbye CentOS Stream 8. I guess we didn't click.