CentOS Stream on Desktop or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love LTS – Michel Salim

Michel Salim – CentOS Stream on Desktop or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love LTS

Within the Red Hat ecosystem, people tend to gravitate towards Fedora on clients (laptops, desktops) and RHEL/CentOS on servers.

At Facebook, we have a need for a middle-ground – an OS release that’s less fast-moving (both in terms of what kind of updates get released during the lifetime of a release, and how long a release is supported). Some commercial ISVs also only support RHEL and Ubuntu LTS.

Starting with CentOS 8 and Stream, we find that CentOS fits that purpose – releases cut every 3 years from predictable Fedora branches, and supported for 5 years. We have a pilot deployment of CentOS 8, and are hoping to use the lessons learned to deploy this more widely during the CS9 timeframe.

A presentation from the May 2021 CentOS Dojo – https://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/May2021