Editing CentOS (section)

== {{Anchor|Stream}}CentOS Stream ==
{{Main|CentOS Stream}}
{{wikinews|Red Hat to move focus away from CentOS in favour of Stream; CentOS team discuss implications with Wikinews}}
'''CentOS Stream''' is a "continuously delivered distro that tracks just ahead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development, positioned as a midstream between Fedora Linux and RHEL."<ref name="The CentOS Project">{{Cite web|url=https://centos.org|title=The CentOS Project|website=centos.org}}</ref> which is designed for "anyone interested in participating and collaborating in the RHEL ecosystem".<ref name="The CentOS Project"/>

Because prior CentOS releases were derived directly from RHEL (RHEL was essentially [[Upstream (software development)|upstream]] of CentOS), Stream thus represents a change from prior CentOS releases, being situated between the upstream development in [[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora]] and the [[Downstream (software development)|downstream]] development for RHEL. That said, CentOS Stream 9 and RHEL 9 started from the same codebase<ref name="Introducing CentOS Stream 9">{{Cite web|url=https://blog.centos.org/2021/12/introducing-centos-stream-9/|title=Introducing CentOS Stream 9|website=blog.centos.org}}</ref> and thus CentOS Stream could reasonably be seen as "closer" to RHEL than Fedora.

The initial release, CentOS Stream 8, was released on 24 September 2019, at the same time as CentOS 8.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSStream|title=Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSStream - CentOS Wiki|website=wiki.centos.org|access-date=7 September 2020|archive-date=12 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812025242/https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSStream|url-status=dead}}</ref> As CentOS 8 became unsupported, The CentOS Project provided a simple means of converting from CentOS Linux 8 to CentOS Stream 8.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://centos.org/news-and-events/convert-to-stream-8/|title=Convert to CentOS Stream 8|website=centos.org}}</ref>