Red Hat’s decision to end CentOS is forcing most developers and companies to find an alternative OS. In this guide, learn about the top competitors’ features. CentOS Linux 7, the popular free and open ...

What can you do now? Well, you could try CentOS Stream, but it's not the same thing. Classic CentOS was a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone. CentOS Stream, however, "tracks just ahead of a current ...

In an unexpected announcement earlier this week, Red Hat killed off the free-as-in-beer CentOS variant of its flagship distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The announcement—which clearly stated ...

OK, actually, they're fit to be tied. That's because millions of users have been using CentOS as a stable point distribution for their servers, virtual machines, and appliances. These aren't just ...

FOSDEM 2026 CentOS Connect 2026 took place in Brussels last week, over the two days preceding the sprawling FOSDEM festival of FOSS – the nerd world's Glastonbury, complete with the queues and the ...

Jack Wallen took on the task of kicking the tires of Oracle Linux to see if it’s a worthy replacement for CentOS. The end result might surprise you. Stargate Norway: OpenAI’s First AI Data Center in ...

Amidst all the news from AWS re:Invent last week—mainframe modernization, database updates, ARM-based Graviton3, etc.—one thing might have slipped your notice yet deserves the spotlight: Amazon Linux ...

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Some software refuses to die, even when the distro that birthed it does.

Rocky Linux—one of at least two new distributions created to fill the void left when CentOS Linux was discontinued by parent corporation Red Hat—announced general availability of Rocky Linux 8.4 today ...