{"id":1209,"date":"2020-12-21T22:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T22:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letscloud.io\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2020-12-23T14:28:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:28:31","slug":"the-end-of-centos-what-is-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letscloud.io\/blog\/the-end-of-centos-what-is-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of CentOS – What is the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next the year we\u2019ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)”<\/em> – Rich Bowen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first experience with Linux in the web hosting market was through CentOS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At my home, I used some versions of Ubuntu, Debian, and even SUSE, but it was in a small company that I was able to learn about the importance of CentOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout this learning process, the first information fixed in my mind was the following: CentOS is the free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that I would learn to use a version of RHEL, without the paid support of RHEL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was young, that information blew my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experience with CentOS is incredible: all the quality and stability provided by the RHEL architecture and active developer community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to this, a huge number of websites and online services run on servers with CentOS, many web hosts, for example, use CentOS with Apache to serve their customer base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many owners, administrators, and developers of a small, medium, and even large companies, were surprised by the announcement at the end of 2020, after all, CentOS as we know it will cease to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, what to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement of the end<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rich Bowen, Bowen at redhat.com, said in his last published article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next the year we\u2019ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release. CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, we understand many of you are deeply invested in CentOS Linux 7, and we\u2019ll continue to produce that version through the remainder of the RHEL 7 life cycle.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This means that from now on, CentOS will be replaced by the CentOS Stream project, a rolling release type distribution, with no release of final versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CentOS Stream is going to be a \u201ctestbed\u201d for RHEL and always will be as a development distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officially CentOS 8 will be the last final version released, its support will be reduced until the end of 2021 (it was supposed to be supported into 2029).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking about this change, we have separated some important information for CentOS users, precisely to not panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about the other releases of CentOS Linux?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is an escape, after all, the other releases of CentOS are also approaching the end of updates, but until June 2024 the CentOS 7 will receive updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n