
If you want to stick with CentOS 8 Linux, CloudLinux, a company with years of experience with CentOS, has a deal for you: CloudLinux TuxCare Extended Lifecycle. (Yes, really.) Facebook is CentOS-based, too." The entire telecom infrastructure of China runs on CentOS. Besides small businesses like mine, as MongoDB's evangelist Matt Asay points out, "IBM's consulting practice … for years told its customers to 'just use CentOS.' European fashion brands that would never countenance someone selling a knockoff of their uber-expensive bags run CentOS. I run my own remote servers and websites on CentOS provided by TMDHosting. The vast majority of web and server-hosting companies offered CentOS as their default operating system. Why is that such a big deal? For years, experienced Linux users used CentOS for their Linux server. CentOS Stream, however, " tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release." In other words, CentOS will no longer be a stable point distribution but a beta rolling release Linux distribution. Classic CentOS was a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone. Well, you could try CentOS Stream, but it's not the same thing.

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