I did the same (rebuilding with latest Ubuntu LTS) in environments where RHEL compatibility was not required. Personal note: I am using RockyLinux with no issues at all (I migrated from a CentOS 8 box with the migrate2rocky script) but, as always, your mileage may vary.įinally, if you are sure to need fewer than 16 RHEL instances, you can use plain simple Red Hat Enterprise Linux from Red Hat's free tier (with no support, obviously).ĮDIT: as wisely suggested in other answers, migrating to a different distributions as Debian, Ubuntu, etc. Otherwise you can use one of the new RHEL clones, such as AlmaLinux, RockyLinux or even Oracle Unbreakable Linux (in this case, be sure to select the RHEL-compatible kernel rather than its own customized kernel). Here are the details:ĭetails on the images are available on the mirrors at – that file clearly highlights the difference in the images, and when one might be more suitable than the others.If RHEL binary compatibility is not strictly required and if using in-tree kernel modules only (i.e.: no out-of-tree kmods are required), CentOS Stream should remain a viable option.
For downloading, the CentOs team recommends using torrents to get your initial installer images.
You can find information for the ISO/torrent files and sums are available here. “Note that older content, obsoleted by newer versions of the same applications are trimmed off from repositories like Extras/ and Plus/ however, this time we have also extended this to the SIG content hosted at, and some older End of Life content has been dropped,” said Johnny Hughes.Ĭlick here to download CentOS 7 (2009) from its official mirrors
As this release supersedes all previously released content for CentOS Linux 7, users are advised to upgrade their machines. This is the current release of the legacy branch of distribution which is derived from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9. CentOS Linux 7 (2009) for the x86_64 architecture has been released by Johnny Hughes.
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