On Tuesday, December 8th, Red Hat and CentOS announced the end of CentOS 8. To be specific, CentOS 8 will reach end of life at the end of 2021, 8 years ahead of schedule. To really understand what ...

Want a good tech job? Then you need to know Linux and open-source software. One of the best ways to learn is via a Linux Foundation course. Like RHEL itself, AlmaLinux 9 starts from CentOS Stream via ...

What can you do now? Well, you could try CentOS Stream, but it's not the same thing. Classic CentOS was a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone. CentOS Stream, however, "tracks just ahead of a current ...

Amidst all the news from AWS re:Invent last week—mainframe modernization, database updates, ARM-based Graviton3, etc.—one thing might have slipped your notice yet deserves the spotlight: Amazon Linux ...

This morning, The Register’s Tim Anderson published excerpts of an interview with the CentOS project’s Brian Exelbierd. Exelbierd is a member of the CentOS board and its official liaison with Red Hat.

Rocky Linux—one of at least two new distributions created to fill the void left when CentOS Linux was discontinued by parent corporation Red Hat—announced general availability of Rocky Linux 8.4 today ...

If you have CentOS servers in your data center, Jack Wallen shows you how to migrate them to AlmaLinux, so you don’t have to worry about using CentOS Stream. By now you know about the disaster that ...

CentOS is a free version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. It is built from the same source code as Red Hat and is designed to be used in a business environment. Unlike Red Hat, it ...

In the beginning, no one expected to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux for free. The end of CentOS as a free drop-in replacement is no cause for outrage. In tech, we tend to get angriest when companies ...

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