Ed Greshko wrote:
On 31/01/2022 14:39, Tim via users wrote:
Not long ago, 16 Nov 2021, I had one of their email press releases stating that the latest version of 8 had just been released and that it's EOL would be 31 Dec 2021. I had to check that wasn't a typo.
I do need to see what direction CentOS is now talking. If only for "educational" purposes only. I don't intend to become a "subject matter expert" :-)
A bit more internet noodling around suggested that if you'd chosen to use CentOS for the usual reasons (a server that you wanted to be stable), then CentOS Stream wasn't going to be what you wanted.
At the risk of going a little off-topic, maybe a few links will be useful for other Fedora folks who haven't followed the changes in the CentOS project.
CentOS Linux 8 as a rebuild of RHEL 8 has now gone EOL. There won't be a CentOS Linux 9.
For folks who want a rebuild of RHEL 8 (and later), there are at least two projects providing it, Rocky Linux and Alma Linux:
https://rockylinux.org/ https://almalinux.org/
CentOS Stream 8 is a new release. It is where the next point release of RHEL 8 will be worked on in the open. More details on how CentOS Stream differs from CentOS Linux:
https://www.centos.org/cl-vs-cs
For folks running a home server, this is very likely a fine solution. If not, there's the rebuilds mentioned above. Or you can use RHEL, as it's (more or less) free to run on up to 16 nodes for things like a home server.
It's trivial to convert a system running CentOS Linux 8 to CentOS Stream 8:
dnf --disablerepo '*' --allowerasing install http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/centos-st... dnf distro-sync
Per https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/#centos-stream-8
Both Rocky and Alma have scripts to convert an existing CentOS Linux 8 system as well.