I wouldn't back CentOS Stream's survival until it's proven - that's at least 5 years away. Sticking with RHEL makes sense because it's supported.
Cheers L. On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, at 08:30, Matt Ismail wrote: > Hi Nate, > > Would it not make sense to focus development/testing efforts on CentOS > Stream, in order to have earlier xCAT support for the next (minor) > release of RHEL? I could be wrong, but that's what I had thought part of > what CentOS Stream was supposed to be for, i.e. a development target for > upcoming RHEL... > > Cheers, > Matt > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 02:01:42PM -0500, Nathan A Besaw wrote: > > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 14:01:42 -0500 > > From: Nathan A Besaw <bes...@us.ibm.com> > > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xCAT and CentOS 8 Streaming > > X-Mailer: IBM Notes Release 9.0.1FP7 Octobe4, 2013 > > Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > > > > SS, > > > > Prior to the announcement of CentOS Linux changing to CentOS Stream, the > > xCAT core team tested primarily with RHEL with minimal testing with CentOS. > > In most cases, any work needed to enable a release of RHEL would allow the > > associated CentOS release to function with minimal extra effort. > > The xCAT core team will continue to focus our testing efforts on xCAT > > integration with RHEL, but now that the release order of RHEL and CentOS is > > reversed, it is more likely that xCAT users of CentOS Stream will encounter > > problems first, before they have been addressed during RHEL testing. > > This is an area where the xCAT core team can use help from the xCAT > > community going forward. If support for CentOS Stream is of interest to the > > xCAT community, hopefully the community will be able to assist in resolving > > issues related to CentOS Stream. > > Ideally xCAT will continue to informally support CentOS Stream, but how > > well it is supported will be determined by community involvement and how > > large the gap is between CentOS Stream and RHEL. > > > > Regards, > > Nate > > > > > > > > From: Sajesh Singh <ssi...@amnh.org> > > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Date: 12/23/2020 06:04 PM > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] xCAT and CentOS 8 Streaming > > > > > > > > Good day. Is there any documentation on what the supportability of xCAT > > will be on CentOS 8 Streaming once CentOS 8.3 has reached end of life? > > > > Thank you, > > > > SS > > _______________________________________________ > > xCAT-user mailing list > > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xCAT-user mailing list > > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >
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