I just saw this blog entry about the move from conventional CentOS to CentOS Stream following CentOS 8. The article says, “CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021.”
I’m still using CentOS 7, and was planning to upgrade to CentOS 8 sometime early next year, but now that looks like a poor plan.
What does this change to the CentOS ecosystem mean for Interworx?
Hello–
As we just found out about the change to CentOS this morning with everyone else, we do not have any set information, at this time. We’re monitoring the situation, and I know there are some internal meeting being set up, but no exact decisions have been made, yet.
There will be an announcement here in the forums and on social media when we know more, though! Don’t worry, we won’t leave you guys in the dark. 
Thanks!
-Jenna
Friendly Neighborhood InterWorx Support Manager
Thanks @IWorx-Jenna I thought I was late to the party, and didn’t realize this was new information to you, too.
Hi
I know centos stream was around on centos 6 and 7, and they were talk of it been a replacement to centos
Looks like they are now going to do it
Many thanks
John
Any work on centos 8 will translate to whichever fork of RHEL 8 that gains mainstream support. Looking at Oracle Linux 8 (free but also has paid support if needed), Rockylinux and Cloudlinux Open-sourced & Community-Driven RHEL Fork.
Oracle would be a nice option - it’s a distribution I’ve looked at keenly for years.
Rocky could be a nice option too; if it gets off the ground. It’s the most likely candidate to replace CentOS in spirit - it just depends on if the project can gain momentum.
Maybe this could be an opportunity to decouple things so that other RHEL-derived systems can be easily used too without modifying the installer, even if they’re only supported on a “best endeavours” or community basis. That way if Oracle decide to charge, or Rocky goes away, or CloudLinux decide they require a subscription, it won’t require such drastic measures to add a replacement in.
@hacman, agreed as all the RHEL forks should all be very similar we could do periodic tests to confirm if InterWorx installs and core functions work on the various forks. We would likely still only fully support one of them but keeping an eye on the others would provide a safety net.
just got this sent to me from Cloudlinux about Project Lenix, looks promising
Project Lenix
Igor Seletskiy, CEO of CloudLinux is here.
You may have already heard the news - Red Hat© Enterprise Linux just killed CentOS© in favour of CentOS© Stream.
Like many others, CloudLinux used a fork of RedHat® EL for its packages on sources provided by RedHat®. Therefore, we do not expect any changes for CloudLinux OS due to the RedHat® announcement: if you are running CloudLinux OS 8 - it will continue to have stable and well-tested updates until 2029, and ELS releases for years after that.
On another note, as we already maintain CloudLinux OS **, we plan to release a free, open-sourced, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL® 8 (and future releases) in the Q1 of 2021, tentatively named "[Project Lenix]
Why are we doing this:
What does it mean for you:
If you are running CentOS© 8 - we will release an OS very similar to CentOS© 8 based on RHEL© 8 stable. We will provide stable and well-tested updates until 2029 for free. You will be able to convert from CentOS© 8 at any moment by running a single command that switches repositories & keys.
Project Lenix
https://projectlenix.org/
