On 7/19/21 2:17 PM, 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 > Sure .. but just like you are using EL8 right now .. EL9 will be released before the 8-Stream EOL. Again .. Have no issues using whatever, but there will be plenty of time to get Stream 9 up and going for most loads before Stream 8 EOL. Yes, some items, if you really need 10 years, would require Alma or Rocky or Oracle if you don't want to pay for RHEL. > > > 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 >