Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 15, 2021 8:36 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
Parent article: Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

> I admit that if you deploy CentOS, a good sysadmin would be up2date with what happens in the distro land *but* also by looking at the number of mirrorlist requests even for CentOS 5, I can tell you for sure that some don't ..... (ouch).

I think there are still two groups in there. Those that aren't aware that the version is EOL and those that are forced into this situation by others (customers, decision makers in their own company).

For the latter it would be useful if distros and the security community could provide more non-technical material (ideally translated into many common natural languages) to explain why running a version that is past EOL is a bad idea, giving examples of scenarios that can happen, their likelihood and the likelihood of being able to fix them while a system is still supported and while it isn't any more,...

Planning the CentOS 8 endgame

Posted Jul 15, 2021 9:44 UTC (Thu) by MortenSickel (subscriber, #3238) [Link]

Being a representative of the latter " those that are forced into this situation by others " - We are for some of our contract work dependent on some software developed by the contracter. That software is still stuck on CentOS 6, although we are promised that an update to CentOS 7 soon is to be released, so we might during the next months be able to be back on a supported version on all our machines.

We have tried to get a roadmap from the contractor of what they are planning to do when CentOS 7 is EOL, but so far we have not gotten and answer to that.

So we are at the moment stuck on CentOS 6 for some machines and hope that they find out how to move further on - if they manage to get on CentOS stream, jump to redhat or one of the other redhat clones or switch to another distribution entirely - in due time before CentOS 7 is EOL.