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And to further add, a lot of the major Red Hat backed projects switched to using Centos steam as the officially supported redhat lineage. Ceph and OpenStack Kolla are both good, major examples.

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Which are in large parts RH/IBM open source projects, too

"lot of the major Red Hat backed projects switched to using Centos"

"Which are in large parts RH/IBM open source projects, too"

?

CERN was a big user of CentOS. After redhat changed CentOS8 EOL, CERN was allowed to use RHEL. Last time I checked, they suggested others in high energy physics community to use Rocky or Alma if RHEL is not an option.

CERN is backing CentOS Stream

https://mobile.twitter.com/passthejoe/status/144693144711837...

Well, I checked again. From CERN Oct 28, 2022 Linux Future Committee meeting [1]:

- Several bugs have been encountered in Stream, which were not present in RHEL.

- Some user communities had previously expressed concerns on the feasibility of using Stream in a production setting. This feeling has also recently been expressed internally by some IT groups.

- CERN is evaluating our original recommendation [0] of utilising CentOS Stream as the default Linux Operating System.

[0] https://linux.web.cern.ch/#update-on-centos-linux-strategy

[1] https://indico.cern.ch/category/13390/

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