

Because AlmaLinux is well-established, Deltares ICT and Delft-FEWS developers have chosen to support AlmaLinux for Delft-FEWS.Both have successfully been granted secure boot validation by Microsoft since v ersion 8.5. They are functionally compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and offer the same stability / benefits as CentOS used to provide. There are two well-know mainstream CentOS alternatives: AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux.

We conclude for this reason CentOS Stream is well-suited for Delft-FEWS test servers but we cannot recommend it as the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux alternative for production servers. Red Hat says CentOS Stream is "not a replacement", but serves as pre-phase to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But since Fedora is mainstream development, in practice this means that CentOS Stream receives new features sooner.
#Fews into red install#
We expect o ur Delft-FEWS RPMs to install fine on CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream is not based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux but on Fedora. Red Hat will stop supporting CentOS Linux, but instead focuses its efforts on CentOS Stream. In 2014 Red Hat took hold of the CentOS project and in 2020 Red Hat announced their decision that C entOS Linux is going to be phased out: CentOS 8 EOL in 2021 and CentOS 7 EOL in 2024.CentOS Linux has proven to be very stable and reliable.
#Fews into red free#
The CentOS Linux distribution provided a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
