CentOS Stream
The upstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: a continuously updated preview of the next RHEL minor release. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- CentOS Project (Red Hat)
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2019
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.centos.org/centos-stream
- Family
- Red Hat / Fedora
- Based on
- Fedora
- Package manager
- DNF
- Package format
- rpm
- Release model
- Semi-rolling
- Release cadence
- Continuous, a new major about every 3 years
- Support lifetime
- About 5 years per major, until RHEL's full support ends
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- GNOME
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Server, Cloud, Containers
- Backed by
- A company
- Beginner friendliness
- 3 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, s390x