History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system

INTERVIEW Gregory Kurtzer, CentOS's founder, tells the story of how the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone was born of a small ...
ZDNet

CentOS Linux 8 is about to die. What do you do next?

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 ...
ZDNet

Where CentOS Linux users can go from here

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 ...
Ars Technica

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 its flagship distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The announcement—which clearly stated ...
TechRepublic

How to migrate CentOS to AlmaLinux and avoid downtime in your data center

If you have CentOS servers in your data center, Jack Wallen shows you how to migrate them to AlmaLinux, so you don’t have to worry about using CentOS Stream. By now you know about the disaster that ...
InfoWorld

How CentOS changes the cloud Linux game

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 ...
InfoWorld

Red Hat’s crime against CentOS

In the beginning, no one expected to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux for free. The end of CentOS as a free drop-in replacement is no cause for outrage. In tech, we tend to get angriest when companies ...