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> CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021 Does this mean that CentOS 8 is EOL come 2021? Weren't maintenance updates meant to go to 2029? What about everybody who built their product on the assumption that there would be a stable CentOS until then?
Yes. https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product It used to be this. https://web.archive.org/web/20201101131417/https://wiki.cent...
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Agreed. I never thought there was any confusion about what CentOS meant. This feels like B.S.
To me it was literally the most straightforward Linux distro: RHEL without the license & trademarked material I've been leaning on Debian-based distros for my own servers for a while now, but I still use CentOS in the lab. Hopefully RedHat provides an easy way to legally develop on RHEL without messing with a license.
TL;DR: CentOS Linux 8.x will end in 2021, CentOS Stream 8 will be RHEL 8.x plus whatever updates are in the pipeline for it. CentOS 7.x will remain as today until RHEL 7.x reaches EOL. I'm very pessimistic on what this means for the RHEL ecosystem as a whole... If I understand correctly, CentOS Stream 8 should be relatively stable just after a RHEL 8.x release, because the pipeline will contain just minor updates. Bu…
So, I suppose CentOS is dead. As others have stated, another group will have to step up and create another CentOS, or just switch to Debian Testing.
Official CentOS/RHEL is more like Debian Stable. The new CentOS "Stream" sounds like it will be more like Debian Testing.
As stated in https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innova... (linked from the article):
"CentOS Stream now sits between the Fedora Project’s operating system innovation and RHEL’s production stability"
So if we compare to Debian, this means:
Fedora Debian unstable (Sid)
CentOS Stream Debian testing (currently Bullseye)
RHEL Debian stable (currently Buster)
IBM strikes again.
I m torn about this move. My gut reaction was that this was a bean-counter move. Thinking more about it the key issues I see with this move are: - CENTOS fills a need, that many users have and superficially it looks like Red Hat (IBM) is now abandoning addressing it. On the other hand Red Hat does offer RHEL for free (gratis) [0] and that should fill the needs of CENTOS users (right?). However it would have been much…
They offer a no-cost "developer subscription" of RHEL, but I'd wager the majority of users are running CentOS on servers.
I m torn about this move. My gut reaction was that this was a bean-counter move. Thinking more about it the key issues I see with this move are: - CENTOS fills a need, that many users have and superficially it looks like Red Hat (IBM) is now abandoning addressing it. On the other hand Red Hat does offer RHEL for free (gratis) [0] and that should fill the needs of CENTOS users (right?). However it would have been much…
Q4: How will CVEs be handled in CentOS Stream?
A: Security issues will be updated in CentOS Stream after they are solved in the current RHEL release.
TL;DR: CentOS Linux 8.x will end in 2021, CentOS Stream 8 will be RHEL 8.x plus whatever updates are in the pipeline for it. CentOS 7.x will remain as today until RHEL 7.x reaches EOL. I'm very pessimistic on what this means for the RHEL ecosystem as a whole... If I understand correctly, CentOS Stream 8 should be relatively stable just after a RHEL 8.x release, because the pipeline will contain just minor updates. Bu…
So, I suppose CentOS is dead. As others have stated, another group will have to step up and create another CentOS, or just switch to Debian Testing.
Official CentOS/RHEL is more like Debian Stable. The new CentOS "Stream" sounds like it will be more like Debian Testing.