Quote On Tuesday, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright and CentOS Community Manager Rich Bowen each announced a massive change in the future and function of CentOS Linux. Moving forward, there will be no CentOS Linuxâinstead, there will (only) be CentOS Stream. Originally announced in September 2019, CentOS Stream serves as a rolling preview of what s next in RHEL âit s intended to look and function much like a preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as it will be a year or so in the future. Â Â CentOSâwhich is short for Community Enterprise Linux Operating Systemâwas founded in 2004. CentOS s first 2004 release was named version 2âto coincide with then-current RHEL 2.1. Since then, each major version increment of RHEL has resulted in a corresponding new major version of CentOS, following the same versioning scheme and built largely from the same source.