Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Once CentOS 7.7 was released resources moved back to CentOS 8.0. On 24 September 2019 CentOS officially released CentOS version 8.0. Since CentOS was discontinued at the end of 2021, its final release was version 8.5 (2021-11-16). In contrast, its RHEL counterpart continued to version 8.10 (as of 2024-09).
CentOS Stream is a community enterprise Linux distribution that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. [3] CentOS Stream is being used by Meta Platforms (known for Facebook and WhatsApp ) [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and Twitter .
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.
For example, RHEL 5 was forked from Fedora at the end of 2006 (approximately at the time of the Fedora Core 6 release) and released more or less together with Fedora 14. By the time RHEL 6 was released, many features from Fedora 13 and 14 had already been backported into it.
CentOS Project 2003 9 [10] 10 years [11] 2021-12-03 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 developers The Chakra ...
End of life RHEL based on Based on 7.1 December 31, 2006 February 29, 2012 4.7 CentOS 4.x 8.0 May 25, 2012 March 31, 2017 5 CentOS 5.x 9.0 May 12, 2014 November 30, 2020 6 CentOS 6.x 10 June 6, 2021 June 30, 2024 7 CentOS 7.x 11 [to be determined] May 2029 8 Rocky Linux 8.x
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.
This article documents the version history of the Linux kernel.. Each major version – identified by the first two numbers of a release version – is designated one of the following levels of support: