In 2014, Red Hat saw the potential and the benefits to its ecosystem and brought the CentOS team in-house. Some can say CentOS was something different, but if we are being fair, a huge portion of the usage was effectively to access key parts of the RHEL ecosystem while not paying a subscription fee. CentOS releases generally lagged the RHEL releases by a few months, but effectively were clones of RHEL for those that did not have the budget for RHEL. It is a testament to Red Hat being the top open-source company in the world.

Red Hat Distro Family Progression 2020Įven if you run on Debian derivatives, you are aware of how mature the RHEL ecosystem is. While some will like to go back to the founding of CentOS, we instead wanted to focus on what CentOS had effectively become over the last 5-10 years: a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) alternative without the support contract. Feel free to open it on YouTube and check it out there. Of course, we know most of the folks on here prefer to read, but this video is a fairly close representation of what is in the article.

Since we have been doing more content with video lately, we are also including a version of this as a video for you to listen to. This is fairly consistent with how IBM is known to do some acquisitions, but it is still shocking. Further, while the project will still support CentOS 7, CentOS, as the community has known it, is effectively a dead project at this point. This week, Red Hat caught a lot of the Linux community off-guard by what was a shocking announcement for many: CentOS 8 as we know it, will see a reduced lifecycle, ending in December 2021. Red Hat Distro Family Progression 2020-2025

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