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Discussion on: What's different about Amazon Linux 2022?

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Stephen Sennett • Edited

On the point about AL2024, that's me making a complete hip-shoot, and based on how fast the sector changes, anything is possible. As I've said, basing on Fedora is the wisest option anyone could take at this time, but the future remains an unknown. We don't even have AL2022 in GA yet.

Fedora wanting to move faster than its downstream makes total sense, and I don't believe I disputed that. But for running production systems, longer lifespans and stability usually make far more sense, and despite the fact it isn't as long as CentOS's original 10 years, the five year cycle brings it up in-line with most other major distros used in production that doesn't have commericial licensing.

As for the backporting of RHEL as the source, that's something I'll explore more and if necessary, issue amendments, since it's worth confirming for the completeness of the narrative.

Thanks for your thoughts on the subject, it's good to get perspectives from others with deep interest in the subject, mate 🙌

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Carl George

Sure thing, happy to provide clarity where I can.

My comment about wanting to move faster was referring to AL2022, not Fedora. Fedora moves the fastest (new version every 6 months), AL the second fastest (new version every 2 years), and CentOS/RHEL the slowest (new version every 3 years). Basically my take away was that AL wanted to move faster than the 3 year cycle that basing on RHEL gave them, which is why the Stream changes weren't a factor.