[CentOS] Difference between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream

Mon Jul 19 20:39:26 UTC 2021
J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56 at btinternet.com>

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
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