Safer Ground

CentOS users need to find a replacement soon. If you use CentOS 8 and you’re looking for safer ground, the migrate2rocky script will automatically migrate your system to Rocky Linux – an enterprise RHEL derivative created by CentOS co-founder Greg Kurtzer.

Artur Skura

Red Hat’s announced re-envisioning of the popular CentOS Linux distribution [1] caused a major disruption in the Linux space. According to some surveys [2], CentOS was actually the third most popular Linux distribution in the world (after Ubuntu and Debian), and all those CentOS instances weren’t just running on desktops. CentOS has carved out a role as a distro of choice for web servers, file servers, and even high-performance computing systems. If you’re wondering how the world will get along without CentOS, the first thing to know is that Red Hat didn’t eliminate the CentOS brand, but they did move it upstream. CentOS used to be based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code, which meant that all the testing, trouble-shooting, and verification that went into Red Hat’s flagship distro…

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