So, this is happening... https://itsfoss.com/centos-stream-fiasco/ TL;DR is CentOS will no longer be the stable release that mirrors RHEL, it will be more like Fedora. CentOS 7 will be supported through 2024. Looks like IBM is trying to drive more people to paying for RHEL, or more likely drive them to using another free alternative like Ubuntu server. -dc