CentOS 8 Ending Next Year To Focus Shift On CentOS Stream
'Well here is a surprise for those that have long used CentOS as the community-supported rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux... CentOS 8 will end in 2021 and moving forward CentOS 7 will remain supported until the end of its lifecycle but CentOS Stream will be the focus as the future upstream of RHEL. From a report: For those relying on CentOS 8 to enjoy the reliability and features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 but without the licensing costs, etc, that will end in 2021. At the end of 2021, CentOS 8 will no longer be maintained but CentOS 7 will stick around in a supported maintenance state until 2024. The CentOS Project will be focused moving forward just on CentOS Stream as the upstream/development branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. CentOS 8 users are encouraged to begin transitioning to CentOS Stream 8. The CentOS Project announced this shift in focus today via the CentOS Blog. Red Hat's announcement meanwhile is promoting the change as beneficial to CentOS Stream.' -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/12/08/2010236 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 577-5304 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:56:43 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'For those relying on CentOS 8 to enjoy the reliability and features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 but without the licensing costs, etc, that will end in 2021.'
Along similar lines <https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/09/centos_red_hat/>: The implication may be that Red Hat has decided that the availability of CentOS undermines the commercial side of its business. Also: Can the community continue to rebuild CentOS Linux from the released source code? “We will not be putting hardware, resources, or asking for volunteers to work towards that effort, nor will we allow the CentOS brand to be used for such a project,” the FAQ said, though adding that “the code is open source and we wouldn’t try to stop anyone from choosing to use it or build their own packages from the code.” So the CentOS brand was created to get away from the Red Hat brand, but Red Hat now owns that as well...
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:56:43 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'For those relying on CentOS 8 to enjoy the reliability and features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 but without the licensing costs, etc, that will end in 2021.'
And, wouldn’t you know it, a successor to the former CentOS is born <https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/rocky_linux/>: Gregory Kurtzer, the founder of the CentOS project, has kicked off a new venture called Rocky Linux, the aim being to build "a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100 per cent bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)". ... The new project's name is a tribute to CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh. "He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you... Rocky Linux," said Kurtzer.
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 20:03:15 +1300, I wrote:
And, wouldn’t you know it, a successor to the former CentOS is born <https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/rocky_linux/>
According to this <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-linux-is-gone-but-its-refugees-have-alternatives/>, Rocky is still more of a concept rather than an actual working distro at this stage. However, there is another alternative listed there that you can actually use: Springdale Linux <http://springdale.math.ias.edu/>, from the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. Also worth going over the rest of that list.
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