[Arm-dev] CentOS 8 for armv7hl

[Ron Wheeler]

Would CentOS be a good and well supported headless 64 bit OS for the 
Raspberry Pi4?

I use Centos7 for everything else and am planning of transitioning from 
existing servers to blade servers based on the Pi4 for supporting 
microservice-based applications (Spring, Netflix, Google as well as 
software development (Nexus, gitlab&SVN, Postfix, DHCP, Firewalld, etc.).

I am old enough to believe that 4Gb RAM on a current-generation CPU can 
run a whole company and if you have 20 such units working together, you 
have a lot of power.
It is awfully nice to think that if one fails, you just slap in another 
Pi4 for practically nothing rather than replacing a powerful server for 
25 times the price.

I am looking at the $55 Pis as alternatives to virtual machines but 
might still want to play with Cloudstack to break up the Pis into 
smaller virtual machines if $55 becomes a lot to pay for a real one!


I would love to take advantage of the active release of security updates 
that we enjoy in CentOS but if there is insufficient support for 64 bit 
ARM, that is a show stopper.

Would Raspbien be a better choice?
It is obviously well supported on the Pi but comes with a lot of stuff 
that is of no use to me in a microservices/corporate server environment 
and means a lot of conversion of my thinking and existing processes.

Ron

On 2019-11-07 8:14 a.m., Andreas Reschke wrote:
> Am 23.10.19 um 18:32 schrieb Brian Stinson:
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, at 04:17, Andreas Reschke wrote:
>>> Hello together,
>>>
>>> is there any plan or update for CentOS 8 for armv7hl? I've running 4
>>> Odroid HC1 with CentOS as  server for mail, web, dns.
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
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>> Yes! In fact, for the record, Pablo had CentOS 8 Altarch for Armhfp 
>> builds done before large chunks of the primary architectures.
>>
>> The delays in composing this for general consumption are all on me. 
>> Stay tuned here for announcements and such.
>>
>> --Brian
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> @ Pablo: any update on this topic?
>
> Greetings
> Andreas
>
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