Interesting announcement - https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel
It's uncertain from the press release whether they'll be some kind of key etc. in there tied to your developer account ala subscription manager, but it might be worth a look-see if you run CentOS currently. Also unclear if they'll support vagrant/docker/virtualBox images or not. On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 2:56:42 PM UTC-8 Vince Skahan wrote: > Here's some related reading that's interesting - > https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Red_Hat_to_move_focus_away_from_CentOS_in_favour_of_Stream;_CentOS_team_discuss_implications_with_Wikinews > > The thing i can't figure out yet is how RH plans to release security > patches. Historically they released updated rpms but always said "you > have to update everything to get a known stable result", so you always had > to update everything. That's kinda what a Stream rolling release is. > Now if they just 'tagged' their set'o'rpms ala "Centos-2020-1215" for > today, folks might be able to install a defined not-moving set of rpms. > But I doubt that'll happen. > > At $work we recently were mandated to switch to Oracle Linux, but the > guesses among the admins is that it was the cost of RHEL entitlements that > caused that, not anything related to CentOS or not. FWIW, I basically > can't tell the difference between OL-7.9 and RHEL (or CentOS) as an admin > or user. That said, who knows if Oracle will similarly switch Oracle > Linux over to a rolling release or not. Basically watching and waiting.... > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/63e07fbf-8fb0-4278-9715-dc7e5819cf53n%40googlegroups.com.
