Why is nobody talking about Oracle in all this? Oracle and Red Hat create competing products: RHEL and OEL. OEL is bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL. It's not hard to see why RH isn't a fan of paying their devs good money to develop a competing product, for free. Sure it sucks that Rocky and Alma get caught up in this as well but I feel like this is 100% a shot against Oracle.
Nefyedardu
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It's a misconception that Centos Stream is a rolling release. It comes in versioned releases that tracks ahead of Red Hat by a few months and have 5-year support cycles.
You don't lose any control, at least not in Silverblue. You are free to edit your base image and layer stuff on top of it if you wish just like any other distro. All it does is create a separate "branch" off of the ostree. It does defeat the purpose of an immutable OS though, the idea is to keep your base system as "clean" as possible so there's less surface area for bugs. But you can do it.
You can't buy digital items from them if you are offline, now can you?
Not to mention the kowtowing to China and the countless other controversies. Same thing with Riot Games with their sexual harassment settlement and 100% being owned by Tencent (a company that operates a mass-surveillance network against ethnic minorities). So funny how everyone forgets about these things when a company releases a product they like.
I don't see how that quote means anything. It factually just isn't a rolling release model. Rolling releases are like Arch, which don't have versions and are instead continuously updated. Point releases have a versioning system in place. Centos (as the quote says) tracks ahead of Red Hat, so Centos Stream 9 released a few months before RHEL 9. In the future there will be a 10 and an 11. That makes it a point release schedule, not a rolling release schedule.