![]() Dec 2020, just 15 months into the CentOS 8 distribution life cycle, Red Hat announces that CentOS 8 will no longer exist and will instead become CentOS Stream.Sept 2019 CentOS 8 is released with an End of Life date of and people are encouraged to switch over from the previous CentOS 7 release.IBM acquired Red Hat for $34B in July 2019, now giving it power over the CentOS project too.CentOS actually ‘joined’ (read ‘was acquired by’) Red Hat back in 2014 which gave Red Hat ‘power/ownership’ over the distribution.CentOS is the community-driven free (as in beer) downstream binary compatible repackaging of the (paid for) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution provided by Reb Hat Inc.For those that have been under that rock, here’s what you missed in as few sentences as possible: You’ll also know of the ongoing saga concerning Red Hat bringing CentOS 8 End of Life forward 8(!) years. Unless you’ve been living under the proverbial digital rock, the opening sentence of this post won’t come as a surprise. Alternatives to CentOS 8 and Centos Stream. ![]()
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