When the Centos 8 news came out, I tried out Centos Stream against our configuration. Kickstart and Puppet config needed very little change and I was able to bring up a VM in our lab config quite easily.



I have two observations:



1) Updates are sparse, none for ages then a large batch of version updates.

2) Stuff can be broken and remain so for a long while. We use Podman rootless. That was broken in the version of Stream I initially installed and remained broken for a few weeks until the next chunk of updates. I looked up the issue in the RHEL tracker and it had been fixed quickly in Fedora etc. but this did not make it to Stream on the same timescale.



My view is that Stream is exactly what RHEL say it is, a development distribution to which 3rd parties can contribute to RHEL development and from which 3rd parties can base their own distributions. It's not for end users, or small organisations that need timely security updates and other fixes and can't produce same themselves.



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On 03/05/2021, 22:14, "Mailing list for Scientific Linux users worldwide on behalf of Dave Dykstra" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:



    The presentation lists a whole bunch of options and

    basically says that they're sticking with something related to RHEL,

    will decide later which one, and in the meanwhile we can use CentOS 8

    until the end of this year or CentOS 8 stream.