having major versions does not make a pièce of software necessarily stable. It just makes it... versionned.
On the contrary being released BEFORE QA team stamp does make it NOT SUITED FOR PRODUCTION....
CentOS Stream updates are published after QA, and Red Hat's engineers have been pretty clear about that for years. I'm surprised there are still misconceptions about this.
If you aren't familiar with Carl, do note that he was part of the CentOS team at Red Hat.
If you aren't familiar with Carl, do note that he was part of the CentOS team at Red Hat.
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