You can opt for openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu or maybe another RHEL fork by the original CentOS creator? So, with CentOS Linux shifting direction from a downstream project to an upstream platform, what are your options? Now, in a shocking move, the CentOS governing board and Red Hat announced that they will be shifting their focus (and investments) to CentOS Stream instead of the CentOS Linux.

Soon after IBM acquired Red Hat, a CentOS Stream distribution was introduced as an upstream for RHEL. In case you didn’t know, let me give you a quick overview:ĬentOS was a community-driven project which was the fork of RHEL and acted as a downstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A Brief Recap of the “CentOS Stream” Episode And as expected, people started to fork Red Hat to give a viable community based alternative to RHEL. CentOS is a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and undoubtedly a popular choice to deploy on production servers because of its rock solid stability and compatibility.īut, now with CentOS Stream, Red Hat just killed CentOS as we know it.

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