CentOS shifts from “Red Hat, unbranded” to “Red Hat, beta”

Enlarge / Looks like CentOS Linux will be sleeping with the fishes. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images)

On Tuesday, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright and CentOS Community Manager Rich Bowen each announced a massive change in the future and function of CentOS Linux. Moving forward, there will be no CentOS Linux—instead, there will (only) be CentOS Stream.

Originally announced in September 2019, CentOS Stream serves as "a rolling preview of what's next in RHEL"—it's intended to look and function much like a preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as it will be a year or so in the future.

What’s a CentOS, anyway?

CentOS—which is short for Community Enterprise Linux Operating System—was founded in 2004. CentOS' first 2004 release was named version 2—to coincide with then-current RHEL 2.1. Since then, each major version increment of RHEL has resulted in a corresponding new major version of CentOS, following the same versioning scheme and built largely from the same source.

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