Author: joeytao, Tencent TEG background development engineers
On December 8th, the CentOS project team suddenly announced that CentOS Linux will end, and it will be replaced by a rolling version of CentOS Stream as the upstream of RHEL. This sudden news is like a depth bomb, and CentOS users all over the world can't help but worry while panicking-what about the business deployed on CentOS?
As the community fork version of RHEL, CentOS is known as the most stable release and one of the most used server releases in the world. TencentOS Server is a Linux operating system developed by Tencent for cloud scenarios. It provides specialized features and performance optimizations to provide high-performance, safer and more reliable operating environment for applications in cloud server instances. TencentOS Server is free to use and has more than 5 million installations. Users can continue to receive updates and maintenance and technical support from the Tencent OS team. TencentOS Server includes the TencentOS kernel self-developed by the Tencent OS team, which brings the latest Linux innovations to the market, and provides superior performance, high scalability and reliability for various enterprise software.
TencentOS Server includes two versions, TencentOS Server 2 and TencentOS Server 3. The user mode is customized based on RHEL 7 and RHEL 8, compatible with RHEL. The kernel is based on the TK3-4.14 and TK4-5.4 of the community Longterm version of the kernel. CentOS 8 ends the update ahead of schedule. The user profile of TencentOS Server can still provide update support based on RHEL8. TencentOS Server is completely open source and free to download and use. It is a better alternative to CentOS.
The download address of TencentOS Server is:
http://mirrors.tencent.com/tlinux/3.1/iso/
TencentOS Server supports both x86_64 and arm64 architectures. The related ISO and sub-machine images can be downloaded and used in the Tencent software source:
http://mirrors.tencent.com/tlinux/
The kernel code has been open sourced on github:
https://github.com/Tencent/TencentOS-kernel
The features of TencentOS Server are as follows:
Deep customization, ready to use out of the box, no complicated configuration required.
Safety compliance, support hot patch, zero downtime repair.
Long-term support, a strong operation support team, and full open source.
A fully optimized high-performance OS designed specifically for cloud scenarios.
The main advantages of TencentOS Server over CentOS and Ubuntu distributions are as follows:
After more than ten years of verification and polishing of Tencent's large internal business.
Support from a team of top kernel experts.
Contains some key performance optimizations and customized features for cloud and container scenarios.
With a strong operation support team, you can get commercial support for a small fee.
As an alternative and innovative development of CentOS, TencentOS Server aims to build a stable server OS based on RHEL compatibility, supports multi-computing architecture, and provides enterprise-level stability and support services. It is your better choice. Welcome to use.
Tencent Cloud TCE:
https://cloud.tencent.com/solution/tce
Cloud server CVM:
https://cloud.tencent.com/product/cvm