Hey, folks, in this video, I'm going to cover CentOS versus CentOS stream.
A lot of people have this confusion and they are so many questions that are going around.
What is CentOS stream?
Is CentOS going to die?
Is there going to be any support for CentOS?
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to be very short and precise to answer this question.
So the first thing is let's talk about a brief history of Santos, whereas came from CentOS is a community
enterprise operating system, which means there are a bunch of volunteers that actually work together
to make that operating system.
So going back to the history in 2004, there is a guy named Greg Kurtzer.
He actually took the code from Red Hat operating system because Red Hat operating system is an open
source is available to public.
So what he did, he took the source code and it actually put a different branding on that.
And he called that new operating system as CentOS.
And then a lot of people actually a lot of volunteers started contributing toward that CentOS open source
project.
Then in 2014, Red Hat actually came back and acquired CentOS operating system community.
And their code is like 1 to 1.
Everything that they have in Red Hat operating system they have in CentOS.
So before February 2021, the way it was trickled down was from Fedora.
Fedora is also another open source project by Red Hat.
So they create this this project, this source code code of the operating system.
Then they push it down to Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, and then they push it down to
CentOS.
Now what's going to happen is after February 2021, it's going to change its sequence the way it streams.
It's going to be fedora then from Fedora, it's going to go straight to CentOS stream and then from
stream it's going to go to Red Hat, Enterprise Linux.
So in other words, until CentOS eight, all updates will be pushed down from Red Hat eight with CentOS
stream, the updates will be pushed down from CentOS to Red Hat.
That is why CentOS is now called the upstream instead of downstream.
Okay.
So the bigger question is now, is it worth learning CentOS operating system?
And the answer is absolutely.
You will need to support CentOS or Red Hat.
Doesn't really matter.
The version that you will be supporting is four, five, six, seven, eight.
Those are all identical Red Hat and CentOS is identical.
And so on.
The red CentOS stream is going to be the same as Red Hat.
Therefore, regardless whether Red Hat comes first or CentOS, you will need to learn Linux and there
is no best free Linux flavor than CentOS.