But despite Red Hat CTO Chris Wright's bald-faced declaration that Stream is not a replacement for CentOS Linux.

I know, I know-put the pitchforks down! Many now-former CentOS users are much too mad at Red Hat to consider migrating to CentOS Linux's 'not-replacement,' CentOS Stream. Let's take a look at a few of the most likely options below.

I can't pretend this is good news for CentOS users, but I can offer some good news: CentOS might be dead, but it's far from your only option for a 'rebuild' distro that's binary-compatible with RHEL. In many cases, CentOS users had migrated to CentOS 8-which they expected to receive support until 2029-only to find out that their 'until-2029' distro had become an 'until-2021' distro just a few months after they'd installed it in the first place.

The announcement-which clearly stated 'CentOS Stream is not a replacement for CentOS Linux'-left thousands of CentOS users stunned and bewildered. Further Reading CentOS Linux is dead-and Red Hat says Stream is “not a replacement”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.

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