'CentOS 8' will end at the end of 2021, and it is clear that the policy to focus on CentOS Stream for subsequent development



The CentOS Project, which is developing one of the Linux distributions 'CentOS', has revealed that it will shift its focus from 'CentOS 8' to 'CentOS Stream'. In the future, CentOS Stream will function as a

development branch for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) . On the other hand, CentOS 8 will end at the end of 2021.

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream – Blog.CentOS.org
https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/



CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise Linux

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innovative-future-enterprise-linux

[CentOS-announce] CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048208.html

CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream [LWN.net]
https://lwn.net/Articles/839257/

CentOS is a RHEL-based distribution that was born in 2004. CentOS 8 is a version released on September 24, 2019 based on RHEL released on May 7, 2019, and at the same time, 'CentOS Stream' was released as a platform for developers.

The relationship between the four distributions, including Fedora, which is the basis of RHEL, is published in a blog by Hiroshi Kojima, a solution architect of Red Hat, in an easy-to-understand manner.

Fedora / CentOS Stream / CentOS / RHEL Relationship-Red Hat Engineer Blog
https://rheb.hatenablog.com/entry/202007-fedora-distribution



Regarding this shift, Red Hat's Chris Wright said, 'CentOS Stream is not a replacement for CentOS Linux. Rather, it is a natural and unavoidable next step toward achieving the project's goal of'promoting innovation in enterprise Linux'. It is a step of. '

The official CentOS blog suggests that CentOS Stream is the best choice for migration after CentOS 8 is closed, but if you are using CentOS 8 and CentOS Stream does not meet your needs, contact Red Hat. ..

in Software, Posted by logc_nt