
Every 6 months or so, Red Hat will take CentOS Stream and rebuild it as a new RHEL point releaseĬentOS Stream will have a life cycle of 5 yearsĬentOS Stream will be more up-to-date than RHEL, whereas CentOS Linux has traditionally lagged behind CentOS versions at CERN? ¶įor the 7 family: CERN CentOS (CC7) is CERN customized distribution that is built on top of the CentOS Linux 7 and it is tailored to integrate within the CERN computing environment. They will continue to take Fedora releases and perform their QA on them, but now they will assemble all their changes publicly as CentOS Stream. With CentOS Stream, Red Hat is doing their development work out in the open.

There will not be a "CentOS Linux 9", and instead all efforts from the CentOS project will be focused into CentOS Stream.The life cycle of CentOS Linux 7 was not affected by this annoucement.


For this reason CentOS Linux was always a direct copy of what existed in RHEL, without the support that is usually included with RHEL. The CentOS project currently provides two Linux variants:Ĭonsistent, manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deploymentsĬontinously delivered distribution that tracks just ahead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), positioned as a midstream between Fedora Linux and RHEL CentOS Linux ¶ĬentOS Linux has always been a 'rebuild' of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), meaning that the distribution was built by taking the source code from RHEL and repackaging and releasing it as CentOS Linux.

Using AIMS (the Automated Installation Management ServerĬommunity-driven free software effort focused around the goal of providing a rich platform for open source communities to build upon. Scientific Linux CERN (SLC6) (deprecated)
