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> The distribution now being called "CentOS" is almost at the opposite ends of the scale in terms of stability.

No, this is totally wrong (which is why I'm trying to correct it). CentOS will be where RHEL used to be. It is trading places with RHEL. It's not "the opposite end of the scale in terms of stability." CentOS will be roughly a single minor point release ahead of RHEL.

Please read more about because that is super misleading and others are seeing things like this and propagating them: https://freedomben.medium.com/centos-is-not-dead-please-stop...

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It’s swapping places with RHEL beta, not RHEL. Not calling it a beta doesn’t not make it a beta. It’s directly taking the role that RHEL beta releases used to have (ie. be a point release ahead, and be for the public to test and report issues before going to stable RHEL).

Regardless of what your blog post says, RHEL was not a beta for old CentOS. Old CentOS was a rebuild/copy of RHEL, bugs and all included. RHEL will not be a copy/rebuild CentOS Stream, so it’s not a reversal of roles.

Using outdated packages doesn’t make a distribution stable. It’s stable when its combination of packages and configuration has already been tried by a bunch of people, and confirmed to work, or has had its issues thoroughly documented with effective workarounds.

Saying this repeatedly does nothing to make it actually true.

I agree! Saying it's false repeatedly likewise doesn't make it false.

Where am I wrong? Can you point out my error and make a case for your position? What makes you think RHEL is still "stable" but suddenly a distro a tiny bit ahead is now wildly unstable?

Go be a child somewhere else. Your responses show a clear lack of understanding of the point of using CentOS and becoming petulant when someone calls you on it just makes it worse.

CentOS was binary compatible because the point was expecting it to be the same environment for application layer and testing. The change being described throws all that in the trash and its intellectually dishonest at best or just obtuse ignorance at worst to "misunderstand" the difference here, and how big of a change switching to a "Beta" effect release schedule is when there was an existing 10 year commitment to release schedule that was also thrown in the trash.

Don't try to insult the userbase by then gaslighting after the fact.

Don't you understand. He made a picture and swapped places between RHEL and CentOS. Clearly this proves that CentOS Stream is replacing RHEL.

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