CentOS is neither defunct nor doesn’t it exist anymore. What stops at the end of 2021 is CentOS Linux 8 being further populated with content, thus now RPMs will be rebuilt anymore. CentOS Linux 8 is still working until then and CentOS Linux 7 continues to be available until 2024.
The next platform for CentOS users is CentOS Streams, available since over a year for version 8, soon kicking of with version 9. What changes with stream is how the binary rebuilds are being produced and made available. Additionally, it allow users to contribute.
There is already great interest of companies like Facebook & Twitter to push interesting features with Stream.
So this is far from what this article tries to suggest (defunct & dead). Unfortunate, because otherwise it has interesting content. Hopefully, that part is closer to the truth than the CentOS bits.
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