On 5/19/21 10:50 AM, John Mellor wrote:
They didn't drop it at all. They changed from a fixed release
schedule to a rolling release. As a potential dev environment, this
is a huge improvement. RedHat and CentOS tend to be running ancient
versions of tools and apps in the name of stability - not what you
need when you're developing new things.
As a point of clarification: CentOS Stream is not a rolling release, it
is a release with "rolling updates". That is only to say that there are
no longer minor releases every six months. That's pretty much the only
significant change. As a consequence, CentOS Stream is still going to
have the same "ancient versions" that RHEL does, overall. Stream will
get updates destined for RHEL a little earlier than RHEL gets them, but
it's not going to get updates that would be unsuitable for RHEL.
For development systems where you want very contemporary packages,
Fedora is a good choice. For production systems where you want more
conservative updates, CentOS Stream is a good choice. For systems where
you want a support contract, RHEL is a good choice.