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> The CentOS project recently announced a shift in strategy for CentOS. Whereas previously CentOS existed as a downstream build of its upstream vendor (it receives patches and updates after the upstream vendor does), it will be shifting to an upstream build (testing patches and updates before inclusion in the upstream vendor.

Wow, I haven't been following this very closely - but isn't that Fedora they're describing? At least... traditionally...

Fedora was upstream, RHEL was stabalized in the middle, and CentOS was downstream - regarding patch releases and features, etc.

Is Fedora going away too?

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> Is Fedora going away too?

Nope.

  - Fedora is cutting edge/desktop.
  - CentOS Stream is testing/RC area for RHEL patches.
  - RHEL is the stable server for enterprise.

This is what I understood from a reply to another comment of me in a similar thread.

> - CentOS Stream is testing/RC area for RHEL patches.

No more than 'current' rhel is testing for centos patches.

Quoting Matthew Miller from Fedora:

"Everything that goes into Stream is approved for a minor release in RHEL."

Source is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25360352

Fedora is desktop-focused. RHEL and CentOS are server-focused. I think there is a place for both. But who knows, maybe IBM will discontinue one, or both.

RHEL and CentOS are both server and desktop. The desktop is just not flashy or shiny or bleeding edge. The default install is/was Gnome 3 shell (For RHEL7 and CentOS 7).

I am not sure if this is still the case, but Redhat used to require 100% of its employees to use RHEL Workstation as the desktop.

I know a sales guy who had a choice of Windows or Mac, I think engineers use Linux.

That's good to hear. I felt kindof bad for the receptionist being forced to use RHEL. This was during RHEL3 and the desktop was not great.

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