On Tuesday, December 8th, Red Hat and CentOS announced the end of CentOS 8. To be specific, CentOS 8 will reach end of life at the end of 2021, 8 years ahead of schedule. To really understand what ...

This is going to be "too little, too late" for many people. Personally, I wouldn't trust it. Also, when I was a sysadmin deploying this stuff, I used CentOS for systems that I didn't need a RHEL ...

I recently wrote an article about Red Hat announcing the end of life for CentOS 8 and its replacement, CentOS Stream. That piece (and many others like it) received a lot of pushback from various ...

Nobody likes it when Big Tech changes its mind. It’s particularly frustrating when it involves a major course change on something so essential to technology infrastructure as a server operating system ...

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 ...

Ever since Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 in May, CentOS users have been waiting impatiently for CentOS 8 to arrive. Now, their wait is over. CentOS 8 is here and ready for ...

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 ...

CentOS 8 is due for release on September 24 according to the project’s official Twitter account. The announcement comes after a long development cycle which began at the start of May. It’s not clear ...