Am 17.06.20 um 21:37 schrieb Noam Bernstein via CentOS:
On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:32 PM, Phil Perry <ppe...@elrepo.org> wrote:

I get what you are saying, but what difference does it make if it has? What 
does it matter if the lag is 1 week, or 1 month, or more? The only reason it 
will matter to you is if you are trying to do something with CentOS that is 
time critical - e.g, publicly facing server that needs security updates, using 
CentOS on test servers to validate production releases for RHEL, etc. At which 
point you probably should be using RHEL if it is important to you, not CentOS, 
and it was a mistake to deploy CentOS in those roles in the first place.

And yet in practice many of us have found CentOS to be perfectly adequate for 
such applications in the past, up to and including CentOS 7.  If this is no 
longer true for CentOS 8, for whatever reason, it's useful to know.  I'm not 
saying RHEL doesn't have its place - just that perhaps the boundary in the 
range of applicability between it and CentOS has therefore also changed.



The answer is not inherently in the distribution itself. Make your
analysis about your needs an requirements and the choice is then yours.

One could argue that the gap between disclosure of one security issues
and the update via RHEL subscription is to big. Then a contract with
the upstream developer of the corresponding software component is a
better choice then relying in RHEL, right?

--
Leon


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