CentOS is officially DEAD!

[Neil]

Yup, RedHat have announced some big changes to the CentOS platform recently

• There will not be a CentOS Linux 9
• Updates for the CentOS Linux 8 distribution continue until December 31, 2021
• Updates for the CentOS Linux 7 distribution continue as before until June 30, 2024
• Updates for the CentOS Linux 6 distribution ended November 30, 2020

However, something that struck me in the news release, the fact they mention low or no cost which leads me to believe that it will no longer be free!

In the first half of 2021, we will be introducing low- or no-cost programs for a variety of use cases, including options for open source projects and communities, partner ecosystems and an expansion of the use cases of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer subscription to better serve the needs of systems administrators and partner developers.

They will be replacing CentOS with CentOS Stream which sits below Fedora and above RHEL (CentOS is actually below RHEL) in their development timeline, so gives developers earlier access to RHEL future versions etc.

CentOS Stream: Building an innovative future for enterprise Linux

Red Hat centers enterprise Linux innovation around CentOS Stream.

www.redhat.com

FAQ: CentOS Stream Updates

An FAQ for inquiries around the updates to CentOS Stream from Red Hat.

www.redhat.com

However. it's not all bad news as the people behind CloudLinux OS have