Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 31/01/2022 14:39, Tim via users wrote:
>> Not long ago, 16 Nov 2021, I had one of their email press releases
>> stating that the latest version of 8 had just been released and that
>> it's EOL would be 31 Dec 2021. I had to check that wasn't a typo.
>
> I do need to see what direction CentOS is now talking. If only for "educational"
> purposes only. I don't intend to become a "subject matter expert" :-)
>
>> A bit more internet noodling around suggested that if you'd chosen to
>> use CentOS for the usual reasons (a server that you wanted to be
>> stable), then CentOS Stream wasn't going to be what you wanted.
At the risk of going a little off-topic, maybe a few links
will be useful for other Fedora folks who haven't followed
the changes in the CentOS project.
CentOS Linux 8 as a rebuild of RHEL 8 has now gone EOL.
There won't be a CentOS Linux 9.
For folks who want a rebuild of RHEL 8 (and later), there
are at least two projects providing it, Rocky Linux and Alma
Linux:
https://rockylinux.org/
https://almalinux.org/
CentOS Stream 8 is a new release. It is where the next
point release of RHEL 8 will be worked on in the open. More
details on how CentOS Stream differs from CentOS Linux:
https://www.centos.org/cl-vs-cs
For folks running a home server, this is very likely a fine
solution. If not, there's the rebuilds mentioned above. Or
you can use RHEL, as it's (more or less) free to run on up
to 16 nodes for things like a home server.
It's trivial to convert a system running CentOS Linux 8 to
CentOS Stream 8:
dnf --disablerepo '*' --allowerasing install http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/centos-stream-repos-8-3.el8.noarch.rpm
dnf distro-sync
Per https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/#centos-stream-8
Both Rocky and Alma have scripts to convert an existing
CentOS Linux 8 system as well.
--
Todd
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