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