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Early death of CentOS: CineSat released for Rocky Linux 8.4
2021-09-16
Today, we released CineSat for Rocky Linux 8.4 the successor of the deprecated CentOS operating system.
Sudden Death of CentOS
With first release of CentOS 8, Redhat had announced a 10 year life-time until 2029. Until 2021, CentOS was an operating system built from a stable, enterprise-ready RedHat OS release.
But by December 2021, RedHat will dump further support for CentOS - 8 years earlier than planned - and will turn CentOS into a pre-release stream of its RedHat Enterprise Linux with update paths that cannot be reliably used for production environments.
Rocky Linux continues CentOS
Since early summer 2021, Rocky Linux is a sufficiently stable successor of the earlier CentOS. The project is lead by the original initiator of CentOS and is being backed by industry resources.
- built from stable RedHat Enterprise Linux releases
- 100% bug-for-bug compatible with RedHat Enterprise Linux
- Rocky Linux 8 will have a life-time until 2029
The CineSat teams has switched to development on Rocky Linux.
All CineSat software developed on Rocky Linux will be 100% binary compatible with the corresponding RedHat Enterprise Linux release.
