More Than a BetaĬentOS Stream is much more than a beta. These updates will encompass the latest/greatest from the RHEL codebase, to give ecosystem developers a firsthand view into what the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will look like. What, exactly, does that mean? Simply put, CentOS Stream is an upstream development platform for ecosystem developers, that serves as a single stream of content which is updated several times a day. It is a parallel distribution to existing CentOS, which this morning saw the release of CentOS 8.”
What Is CentOS Stream?Īccording to Red Hat CTO Chris Wright, “CentOS Stream is a developer-forward distribution that aims to help community members, Red Hat partners and others take full advantage of open source innovation within a more stable and predictable Linux ecosystem. In that span of four and a half months, anyone developing for CentOS has become quite a bit behind RHEL.įortunately, that caveat is about to come to an end, as CentOS is being prepped to become a part of an exciting new project, one that will keep developers of both platforms in sync with one another. Case in point, RHEL version 8 was released in May of 2019, whereas the official CentOS 8 release date is Sept. As RHEL is one of the most widely used Linux distributions in enterprise computing, and since CentOS is seen as the community version of that platform, it should come as no surprise that CentOS enjoys a large share of the market.īut up until recently, CentOS updates tended to lag behind those of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In 2014, CentOS officially joined Red Hat, but remained independent of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The CentOS Linux distribution provides a free, community-driven platform that shares functional compatibility to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.