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So, while CentOS Stream is something of a rolling release, it's a limited one-it rolls from one minor version to the next, but its major version is stable and tracks Fedora's.

Development work for RHEL y.1 is done in CentOS Stream version y reposĪnd so forth.

Development work for RHEL x.2 is done in CentOS Stream version x repos.

CentOS Stream version y forks from RHEL y.0.

RHEL x.1 forks from CentOS Stream version x.

1 is done in CentOS Stream version x repos

CentOS Stream version x forks from RHEL version x.0.

The new relationship works like this: Advertisement CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux will still track very closely to one another. for an awful lot of users, it very easily could be.īefore this week, the relationship between CentOS Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux was, effectively, "it's the same thing, but without the branding and the support." In a lot of ways, that relationship will continue to be true. But despite Red Hat CTO Chris Wright's bald-faced declaration that Stream is not a replacement for CentOS Linux. I know, I know-put the pitchforks down! Many now-former CentOS users are much too mad at Red Hat to consider migrating to CentOS Linux's "not-replacement," CentOS Stream.

Let's take a look at a few of the most likely options below. I can't pretend this is good news for CentOS users, but I can offer some good news: CentOS might be dead, but it's far from your only option for a "rebuild" distro that's binary-compatible with RHEL. In many cases, CentOS users had migrated to CentOS 8-which they expected to receive support until 2029-only to find out that their "until-2029" distro had become an "until-2021" distro just a few months after they'd installed it in the first place.

The announcement-which clearly stated "CentOS Stream is not a replacement for CentOS Linux"-left thousands of CentOS users stunned and bewildered. Further Reading CentOS Linux is dead-and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”In an unexpected announcement earlier this week, Red Hat killed off the free-as-in-beer CentOS variant of its flagship distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.