If you want to stay with the CentOS project, and are looking for a Linux distribution which will prepare you for the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, then migrating from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8 is the simplest way to continue to receive updates and new features for your CentOS servers. The migration is a relatively painless process, which involves enabling the centos-release-stream package to point to the appropriate repositories of packages, swapping the CentOS Stream 8 repositories in for the CentOS 8 repositories, and syncing your distribution. sudo dnf -y --disablerepo '*' --enablerepo extras swap centos-linux-repos centos-stream-repos sudo dnf -y distro-sync The second command will install and remove a number of packages and may take several minutes to complete. Once this is complete, reboot your system, and you should now see "CentOS Stream release 8" in /etc/centos-release - your update is complete.