CentOS is moving its focus away from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. CentOS has been widely in use among the developer community as it is a variant of RHEL (RedHat). There are still many deployments both commercial as well as development where multiple CentOS linux machines are used. Some of them still using CentOS 7 and some moved to CentOS 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CentOS 8 has reached its EOL on 31st December 2021 where as CentOS 7 has EOL until 2024. So it is encouraged to update your CentOS linux to CentOS Stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The difference between these two is that CentOS Linux is downstream based while CentOS Stream is upstream based. CentOS Linux is a rebuild of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) as such is it a downstream from RHEL. For example, CentOS 8.2105 version means that it was built from the RHEL 8.3 version which was release in the year 21 and month 05 (may).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CentOS Stream on the other hand is a upstream which means it is the development branch of RHEL so CentOS Stream 8 is the upstream for the next minor version of RHEL 8 and CentOS Stream 9 is the upstream for the next minor version of RHEL 9 and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore for CentOS Linux updates, it takes quite a while to get new packages and updates where us in CentOS Stream, it only takes a few days to get the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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