Where do I go now that CentOS Linux is gone? Check our list
In an unexpected announcement earlier this week, Red Hat killed off the free-as-in-beer CentOS variant of their flagship distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The announcement-which clearly stated "CentOS Stream is not a replacement for CentOS Linux"-left thousands of CentOS users stunned and bewildered. In many cases, CentOS users had migrated to CentOS 8-which they expected to receive support until 2029-only to find out that their "until-2029" distro had become an "until-2021" distro just a few months after they'd installed it in the first place.
I can't pretend this is good news for CentOS users, but I can offer some good news: CentOS might be dead, but it's far from your only option for a "rebuild" distro that's binary-compatible with RHEL. Let's take a look at a few of the most likely options below.
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