
CentOS Linux was a freely available, community-supported Linux distribution that was developed, distributed, and maintained by the CentOS Project community contributors. It was derived based from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources and released in alignment with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux production release cycle. For this reason was a great alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Note that CentOS Linux is not a Red Hat product and does not have Red Hat support.
But in 2020, The CentOS Project, in coordination with Red Hat, announced that it would shift full investment to CentOS Stream, the upstream development platform for upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. That mean that will be no more alligned to the production version of Red Hat Enterprise.
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