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CentOS 8 is reaching its end of life (EOL) at the end of 2021, though
it was originally
slated to be supported until 2029. That change was announced last December, but it may still come as
a surprise to some, perhaps many, of the users of the distribution. While
the systems running CentOS 8 will continue to do so, early
next year they will stop getting security (and other) updates. The CentOS
project sees CentOS
Stream as a viable alternative, but users
may not agree—should the project simply leave CentOS 8 systems as ticking time bombs
in 2022 and beyond?