CentOS will end at the end of the year!

A year ago Red Hat announced that it will end offers free CentOS Linux end of this year (2021) ( CentOS is dead! "Free" RHEL gone ... ). Last Friday, Red Hat reminded again that CentOS Linux 8 will come to its end of life (End of Life, EoL) on December 31 this year. For: CentOS is out of service! Which one do we use? Ubuntu or Debian ?

CentOS is one of the Linux distributions, compiled from Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code released by Red Hat in accordance with the open source code. Since it comes from the same source code, some servers that require high stability use CentOS instead of the commercial version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Last year, Red Hat announced that CentOS will be converted to a platform developed by DevOps personnel, instead of a stable server application or VM operating system. The called CentOS Stream, and there will be no more CentOS 9 .

CentOS Stream 9, originally scheduled to be launched in the second quarter of this year, was postponed to mid-November. Users can download IBM Power, IBM Z, ARM54, and x86 architecture components on the CentOS website. At the same time, CentOS Stream 8 will no longer be automatically upgraded to the new version.

last version of CentOS 8 will only be updated to on December 31, 2021, but CentOS 7 will be updated to on June 30, 2024 . For CentOS 8 users, Red Hat will also release the RHEL rebuild version to CentOS users when it launches RHEL 8.5, that is, the real last CentOS version, and the time point may also fall after EOL.

Just as the RHEL point release will come with several security updates, the last version of CentOS Linux 8 will also have similar updates, but with the announcement of EoL and the New Year holiday, Red Hat support will only be extended to 20221 No more updates will be released after the 31st.

At the end of January, or when a security vulnerability with a CVSS risk value of 9 or higher occurs, this version will be removed from the mirror website and permanently archived on the vault.centos.org website, which stores EoL products exclusively.

CentOS has many large enterprises and website users, including Facebook, Disney, GoDaddy, Toyota Motor, Verizon, etc. In addition, some manufacturers use CentOS as the bottom layer of their products, including Juniper, F5, Fortinet, etc.

ZDNet recommends that alternatives to CentOS 8 include AlmaLinux, CloudLinux OS, Rocky Linux ( Rocky Linux 8.3 created by the father of CentOS is released! Download link and installation tutorial ) and Amazon Linux, HPE ClearOS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Of course there is RHEL.

For those of us who use it in the enterprise, welcomes everyone to leave a message to share, what kind of system do you use after the termination of CentOS? ? ?

Reference: ithome.com.tw/news/148329