CentOS Stream is the continuously delivered platform that becomes the next minor version of RHEL.Fedora Linux is the place for major new operating system innovations, thoughts, and ideas-essentially, this is where the next major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is.To summarize: we're making CentOS Stream the collaboration hub for RHEL, with the landscape looking like this: This week, Red Hat clarifies the broad strokes as follows: Red Hat's December announcement of CentOS Stream-which it initially billed as a 'replacement' for CentOS Linux-left many users confused about its role in the updated Red Hat ecosystem. Red Hat's early termination of CentOS 8 in 2021 cut eight of those 10 years away, leaving thousands of users stranded. Long-standing tradition-and ambiguity in Red Hat's posted terms-led users to believe that CentOS 8 would be available until 2029, just like the RHEL 8 it was based on. Further Reading CentOS Linux is dead-and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”Last month, Red Hat caused a lot of consternation in the enthusiast and small business Linux world when it announced the discontinuation of CentOS Linux.

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