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For example, CentOS 6.5 is built from the source packages of RHEL 6 update 5 (also known as RHEL version 6.5), which is a so-called "point release" of RHEL 6. [ 39 ] Starting with version 7.0, CentOS version numbers also include a third part that indicates the monthstamp of the source code the release is based on.
In April 2019, it was announced that feature development for Scientific Linux would be discontinued, but that maintenance will continue to be provided for the 6.x and 7.x releases through the end of their life cycles. Fermilab and CERN will utilize CentOS Stream [4] and AlmaLinux [5] for their deployment of 8.x release instead.
CentOS: CentOS Project CentOS Project 2003 10 [10] 10 years [11] 2024-12-12 X Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server, workstation None Inactive CentOS Stream: CentOS Project CentOS Project 2019 9 [12] 5 years [13] 2021-12-03 X Upstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server, workstation None Active Chakra: Jan Mette and Arch Linux KDEmod ...
On December 8, 2020, Red Hat announced that development of CentOS, a free-of-cost downstream fork of the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), would be discontinued and its official support would be cut short to focus on CentOS Stream, a stable LTS release without minor releases officially used by Red Hat to preview what is intended for inclusion in updates to RHEL.
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[23] [24] The LTS support period was increased to 6 years; Linux kernel 4.4 will have 6 years of support before being taken over by the "Civil Infrastructure Platform" (CIP) project that plans to maintain it for a minimum of 10 years under "SLTS (Super Long Term Support)" (the CIP has only, for now, decided to maintain for 64-bit x86-64 and 32 ...
End of Full Support End of Maintenance Support 1 (RHEL 5, 6, 7) End of Maintenance Support (RHEL 8, 9, 10), Maintenance Support 2 (RHEL 5, 6, 7) (product retirement) End of Extended Lifecycle Support 2.1 U-7 26 March 2002 (AS) 1 May 2003 (ES) 30 November 2004 31 May 2005 31 May 2009 [73] —
Version 3.0.3 was one of the first Linux distributions to support ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) binaries instead of the older a.out format. [ 6 ] Red Hat Linux introduced a graphical installer called Anaconda developed by Ketan Bagal, intended to be easy to use for novices, and which has since been adopted by some other Linux distributions.