CentOS Stream 8
Mayank Sharma takes a look at the distro that has the open source community up in arms, to see what the hullabaloo is all about.
Late last year, the Red Hatsponsored CentOS project announced that it was refocusing its efforts behind the newly introduced CentOS Stream distro. In essence it killed the beloved and highly stable server distro with what is essentially a rolling release.
IN BRIEF
CentOS Stream began life as a sibling to the main CentOS edition in 2019 as a means of influencing the development of RHEL. But in a hotly debated decision the distro has overthrown its mature sibling to establish itself as the defacto CentOS release going forward.