AlmaLinux OS 8.3

Late last year, Red Hat pulled the funding for the CentOS project, leaving its developers no option but to shutter it, and instead focus on the newly introduced CentOS Stream distro (see our review in LXF275).

The technical differences notwithstanding, what’s annoyed the community is the decision to prematurely end support for CentOS 8. Originally promised to be supported through to 2029, the distro will now reach a premature end of life at the end of 2021.

Furthermore, even CentOS Stream 8 offers five years of support only, which is why despite a simple-enough migration path from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8, it wouldn’t work for admins who use CentOS for its