Instructor: Hey folks, in this video,
I'm going to cover CentOS versus CentOS Stream.
A lot of people have this confusion
and there are so many questions that are going around.
What is CentOS Stream?
Is CentOS going to die?
Is there gonna be any support for CentOS?
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna be very short
and precise to answer this question.
So the first thing is, let's talk about a brief history
of CentOS, where's it came from.
CentOS is a Community Enterprise Operating System,
which means there are a bunch of volunteers
that actually work together
to make that operating system.
So going back to the history in 2004,
there's a guy named Greg Kurtzer.
He actually took the code from Red Hat Operating System,
because Red Hat Operating System is an open-source,
is available to public.
So what he did is took the source code
and it actually put a different branding on that,
and he called that new operating system as CentOS.
And then a lot of people,
actually a lot of volunteers started contributing
toward that CentOS open-source project.
Then in 2014, Red Hat actually came back
and acquired CentOS Operating System Community
and their code is like one to one.
Everything that they have in Red Hat Operating System,
they have CentOS.
So before February, 2021,
the way it was trickled down was from Fedora.
Fedora is also another open-source project by Red Hat.
So they create this project,
this source code of the operating system.
Then they push it down
to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System,
and then they push it down to CentOS.
Now, after February, 2021,
it has changed it's sequence.
The way it streams, it's gonna be Fedora.
Then from Fedora,
it's gonna go straight to CentOS Stream.
And then from a Stream,
it's gonna go to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
So in other words, until CentOS 8,
all updates will be pushed down from Red Hat 8.
With CentOS Stream, the updates will be pushed down
from CentOS to Red Hat.
That is why CentOS is now called
the upstream instead of downstream.
Okay, so the bigger question is now,
is it worth learning CentOS Operating System?
And the answer is absolutely.
CentOS Stream will just be like a Red Hat.
So learning the Linux is essential
regardless of which one you choose.
And when it comes to free Linux flavors,
there's nothing better than CentOS.
As of today, CentOS 9 Stream is the latest version.
So good luck, and let's learn Linux together.