On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 09:31:30PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > 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. I think a lot of good answers can be found here: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates So, the short answer is that CentOS 8 goes end of life at the end of December, 2021. So it is fine for production use until that point. However, CentOS 8 Stream should be fine for most uses. My only concern will be for people who use 3rd-party kernel module repositories like ELRepo.org for support of their hardware (such as RAID drivers). ELrepo doesn't plan on building a kmod for the kernels in CentOS Stream, so it would be a painful transition from 8 to 8-stream. But if you aren't using any 3rd-party kernel modules, you should be fine. The Kmod SIG plans to try to build GPL'd kmods for CentOS Stream kernels, but we're just starting up now. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>