[Cialug] CentOS 7 finally EOL'd

Dave Hala dave at 58ghz.net
Fri Sep 1 11:55:33 UTC 2023


I know this kinda goes against the open source ethos, but you can register
at RH and get a developer version of RHEL 9 for no cost.  Having access to
Redhat's documentation is a bonus and it has improved significantly since
they were bought out.

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 2:25 AM Will <staticphantom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Centos Stream 9 actually isn't terrible.
>
> -Will C
>
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2023, 03:22 Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
>
> > +1 for Debian
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 2:20 AM linux-list at upeke.com <
> linux-list at upeke.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Personally, I have always found the upgrade between versions of RHEL
> like
> > > distos to be a iffy thing at best.
> > >
> > > Best advice is to have good backups just in case.
> > >
> > > The third option is to consider moving away from enterprise linuxes to
> a
> > > different flavor i.e. Debian or Arch et.al.
> > >
> > > From: Cialug <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of L. V. Lammert <
> > > lvl at omnitec.net>
> > > Date: Friday, August 4, 2023 at 10:54 AM
> > > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> > > Subject: [Cialug] CentOS 7 finally EOL'd
> > > Looks like it's offically May 31, 2024, .. so need to come up with the
> > > best option for the CentOS 7 prod server I had mentioned a while back.
> > >
> > >         Alma - no upgrade from 7 <?>
> > >         RHEL - commercial only ?
> > >
> > > Does it make sense to migrate to CentOS Linux 8 to have a platform to
> > them
> > > move to Alma?
> > >
> > >         TIA!
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