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....
>
>

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