CentOS officially issued a document saying that CentOS Stream is the future of the CentOS project. In the next year, the focus of development work will be gradually shifted from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream.
The subsequent change is that CentOS 8, which originally had 10 years of support, will end maintenance at the end of 2021. It is CentOS Stream that succeeds it. CentOS Stream, as the upstream (development) branch of RHEL, will continue after CentOS 8 ends maintenance. Update.
Therefore, for CentOS 8 users, if they want to continue to get updates, they need to switch to CentOS Stream. Officials also encourage CentOS 8 users to migrate to CentOS Stream.
In addition, the official has made it clear that CentOS compiled from RHEL code will not be released in the future, which means that there is no need to expect CentOS 9, 10, etc., and it will be replaced by CentOS Stream 9, 10...
CentOS is a branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Because of its reliable stability and compatibility, it is one of the mainstream choices for productivity server deployment. However, with Red Hat's announcement that it will shift its focus to CentOS Stream, CentOS as we know it will withdraw from the stage of history. This has also caused dissatisfaction among many CentOS users. For this reason, CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer initiated a new project called Rocky Linux, hoping to continue CentOS.
CentOS is a community-driven project, a fork and downstream of RHEL. Soon after IBM acquired Red Hat, it introduced the CentOS Stream distribution and used it as the upstream of RHEL. Now, the CentOS Council and Red Hat have announced that the focus of the future will shift to CentOS Stream instead of CentOS.
With CentOS Linux quickly becoming the upstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, many people will be forced to switch to SUSE or Ubuntu Enterprise, even if they don't like it. For this reason, CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer expressed strong dissatisfaction and launched the Rocky Linux project on the GitHub platform, which is expected to become a perfect substitute for CentOS 7/8 users.
Since the GitHub repository was just created and no code was uploaded, I just wrote: "Because CentOS has already switched, Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux." At present, the project has harvested more than 1,000 Stars.