Hi Tracy,
This is an announcement about the EOL of CentOS Linux 7, which has seen its complete 10-year expected lifecycle. Grievances about the short lifespan of CentOS Linux 8 are off-topic, and your hostile language towards Fabian (one of "the rest of the CentOS team" you thank) is completely inappropriate. You can express your disapproval of technical decisions without attacking people personally.
I encourage everybody looking for a CentOS Linux 7 replacement to try out CentOS Stream. CentOS Stream 9 is a stable and proven operating syste. And preview releases of CentOS Stream 10 are available for those who want to test for the future.
Thanks, Shaun McCance CentOS Community Architect
On Sun, 2024-06-16 at 20:40 -0700, Tracy Reed wrote:
A sad day. CentOS was a great distribution that I used for many years. A real shame that RedHat sold out and IBM came along to totally screw the CentOS community in the @$$. My thanks to Johnny Hughes and all of the rest of the CentOS team for years of a great distribution. I no longer have any CentOS systems. It's Debian for me from now on. I'm pretty sure they won't betray their community.
Regards, Tracy Reed
On 6/15/24 23:49, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
Hi,
As discussed multiple times on various lists, CentOS Linux 7 will go EOL in two weeks (end of June) and so that means that various services running on CentOS 7 will disappear too . Apart from internal build infra for centos 7 itself (non public) that will be decommissioned, here are some services that will disappear:
# mirrorlist.centos.org As the whole backend/frontend infra is running on centos 7 , and that everything Stream related (and now SIGs) was migrated to use mirrormanager (hosted by Fedora infra team), there was no reason to migrate/maintain it as all content will be EOL.
# forums.centos.org Per discussion with the forums moderators, it will be powered off completely (not migrated)
# torrent.centos.org In the past we used to provide .torrent for various centos linux releases, but it stopped with CentOS Stream. As the trackers (ipv4 and ipv6) are on centos 7, they'll disappear also end of this month
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