59: What is CentOS?

Can you talk to me about the core distinction that most people miss? When they hear CentOS, particularly when they're comparing it to Red Hat or Fedora, what would you say is, is, is the definition of that core distinction?

And let, let me take that part.

CentOS Linux no longer exists.

CentOS Linux was 10 years of support.

CentOS Stream is five years of support.

S- I think we've already mentioned before CentOS Linux was downstream.

CentOS Stream is upstream.

Oh, now I forgot the, the actual question.

Let me explain Stream and, and, and the integration between s- Fedora Linux and Stream and r- the current edition of Stream and RHEL because it's changed over the past year, in my opinion, i- in a much better way.

It- we've, we've mentioned the Fedora Linux goes into CentOS Stream and then into RHEL.

But the tie between RHEL and CentOS Stream has become extremely tight.

When the RHEL developer makes a change, glibc, VI or Vim or whatever it is, they make that change in the CentOS Stream GitLab repository.

When they do that, it immediately gets built and checked on both RHEL and CentOS Stream at the same time.

That exact same code gets built on CentOS Stream and RHEL at the same time.

It then goes through various tests, and that packager, if they're happy with it and it pass all their tests, they say, you know, they...

We'll just say a checkbox.

They make a checkbox, and it then gets marked, we, we call it pending, but it doesn't really matter, but it goes into CentOS Stream pretty much immediately.

And then for RHEL, RHEL has a six-month release cadence.

But CentOS Stream has a one-week release cadence.

So you're gonna see that update.

I'm gonna use Vim as the example, even though it doesn't get updated very much.

You're gonna see that update in Vim in one week, but in RHEL, the next RHEL, let's say 10.3, it's gonna be, you know, one, two to six months before you're gonna see that updated Vim.

And that's where currently the s- Stream and RHEL is tied together, and it's, it's very tight.

It used to, it used to be different.

The year before, it would be built on CentOS, and there was this hand passing back and forth.