Judging from the dates on /etc/*release Alma dropped on May 26. Also been solid. On 19/07/2021 21:26, Antonio Leding wrote: > FWIW, Rocky Linux dropped GA v8.4 on Jun 21st and has been really stable > for me thus far. For those not aware, Rocky is based on RHEL and has > the primary goal to be a CentOS replacement. > > Also has solid sponsors - AWS, Microsoft, & Google… > > - - - > > On 19 Jul 2021, at 12:17, Antonis Kopsaftis wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Even if centos stream 8 is pretty stable for production usage his eol >> date is until 2024 (same as centos 7). >> In the following 2 years i will have to migrate my centos 7 servers to >> something newer. I can choose a distro with the same eol date. >> I need a distro which much more long eol date. >> >> Finally i choose to trust the oracle developers who maintain the >> oracle linux (based on rhel source packages). >> In the future i will also try the almalinux distro (maintained by >> cloudlinux). >> >> Regards, >> Antonis Kopsaftis >> >> >> >> On 19/7/2021 9:58 μ.μ., Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 7/19/21 12:59 PM, Antonis Kopsaftis wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Check https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product to find the EOL dates for >>>> each version of Centos. >>>> >>>> To my opinion the only centos version that is anymore appropriate for >>>> production usage is version 7. Centos 8 is production ready but the eol >>>> date is only a few months away. >>>> >>>> I choosed to migrate my centos 8 machines to oracle linux 8 for >>>> production usage, but many more distros have appeared (almalinux, >>>> rockylinux, springdale linux, etc). All of them follow the EOL dates >>>> for >>>> RHEL 8.x ( May 2029) and are build from the sources packaes of RHEL. >>>> >>> You are entitled to your opinion :D // but, IMHO .. >>> >>> If you are not doing anything special with the kernel, then there is >>> very little difference between CentOS Stream and CentOS Linux. >>> >>> I would surely rather trust the 1500 RHEL developers who are maintaining >>> CentOS Stream than anyone else .. but that is just my opinion. >>> >>>> Regard, >>>> Antonis Kopsaftis >>>> >>>> On 19/7/2021 7:01 μ.μ., Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I am confused between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream as per >>>>> https://www.centos.org/download/. Please guide me on which one I >>>>> need to >>>>> use in the production environment. Is there a difference between >>>>> CentOS >>>>> Linux and CentOS Stream? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you. >>>>> >>>>> Best Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Kaushal >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> CentOS mailing list >>>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>>> . >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> -- >> >> ============================================================= >> >> ............................................................ >> . . Kopsaftis Antonis - akops at teiath.gr - akops at uniwa.gr . . >> . . Network Operation Center . . >> . . University of West Attica - www.uniwa.gr . . >> . . (ex Technological Educational Institute of Athens) . . >> . . Ag. Spiridonos, Aigaleo, 12243 Athens, Greece . . >> . . Office: +30 2105385790, +30 2105387200 . . >> . . System Engineer . . >> . . VMware Certified Professional (VCP) . . >> . . Certified Fiber Optic Technician (CFOT - FOA) . . >> . . MTCNA - MikroTik Certified Network Associate . . >> . . MTCWE - MikroTik Certified Wireless Engineer . . >> ............................................................ >> >> ============================================================= >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- J Martin Rushton MBCS