CentOS - Jul 2021 - Difference between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream

Hi,

I am confused between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream as per
https://www.centos.org/download/. Please guide me on which one I need to
use in the production environment. Is there a difference between CentOS
Linux and CentOS Stream?

Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards,

Kaushal

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 09:31:30PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan
wrote:
> I am confused between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream as per
> https://www.centos.org/download/. Please guide me on which one I need to
> use in the production environment. Is there a difference between CentOS
> Linux and CentOS Stream?
> 
> Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.
I think a lot of good answers can be found here:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-centos-stream-updates

So, the short answer is that CentOS 8 goes end of life at the end of
December, 2021.  So it is fine for production use until that point.

However, CentOS 8 Stream should be fine for most uses.  My only
concern will be for people who use 3rd-party kernel module
repositories like ELRepo.org for support of their hardware (such as
RAID drivers).  ELrepo doesn't plan on building a kmod for the kernels
in CentOS Stream, so it would be a painful transition from 8 to
8-stream.  But if you aren't using any 3rd-party kernel modules, you
should be fine.

The Kmod SIG plans to try to build GPL'd kmods for CentOS Stream
kernels, but we're just starting up now.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On 7/19/21 12:01 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am confused between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream as per
> https://www.centos.org/download/. Please guide me on which one I need to
> use in the production environment. Is there a difference between CentOS
> Linux and CentOS Stream?
> 
> Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.
The short/simple answer is that CentOS Stream is slightly *before* RHEL 
and CentOS Linux is slightly *after* RHEL.

Note that CentOS Linux 8 will be discontinued on December 31st, 2021. 
The project will be shifting focus to CentOS Stream at that time. As 
such, we recommend that you use CentOS Stream.

Hello,

Check https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product to find the EOL dates for 
each version of Centos.

To my opinion the only centos version that is anymore appropriate for 
production usage is version 7. Centos 8 is production ready but the eol 
date is only a few months away.

I choosed to migrate my centos 8 machines to oracle linux 8 for 
production usage, but many more distros have appeared (almalinux, 
rockylinux, springdale linux, etc). All of them follow the EOL dates for 
RHEL 8.x ( May 2029) and are build from the sources packaes of RHEL.


Regard,
Antonis Kopsaftis

On 19/7/2021 7:01 ?.?., Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am confused between CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream as per
> https://www.centos.org/download/. Please guide me on which one I need to
> use in the production environment. Is there a difference between CentOS
> Linux and CentOS Stream?
>
> Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Kaushal
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