Moreover, there are additional alternatives.Īs such, let’s have a look at viable CentOS alternatives and begin our research, discussion, and decision-making, before the December 31st, 2021 deadline.ĬentOS Alternative Distributions Rocky Linux In response to the termination of CentOS as we know it, CentOS founder, Gregory Kurtzer, created a successor to the original mission of CentOS, then shortly afterward, CloudLinux also announced a new CentOS clone. A CentOS alternative should offer long-term support, and of equal importance, it should be very stable. With Red Hat’s move, CentOS departs from being an extremely stable, community-supported, and RHEL compatible distro to an early rolling-release distro for RHEL, namely CentOS Stream.Īs such, many users, including myself, are looking for CentOS alternatives. They also announced that support would be shifting to a CentOS alternative rolling-release Linux distribution, midstream between the upstream development in Fedora and the downstream development for RHEL.ĬentOS was and still is a very commonly used production-ready Linux server distribution.
However, in December 2020, Red Hat requisitioned that CentOS terminate the development of CentOS 8.
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