[Arm-dev] Centos 9 status?

Mon Feb 21 18:09:23 UTC 2022
Fred Gleason <fredg at paravelsystems.com>

On Feb 21, 2022, at 12:32, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> I am looking for what I am going to replace my Centos arm32 DNS server with.  So far, nothing commercial is priced right and does what little I need.  So Centos8 with Webmin seemed likely.  But the above article says that Centos8 is already past EoL!  Not 2029…

The future of arm32 on RedHat-ish systems was looking bleak even before the CentOS announcement. I can’t find it right now, but there was a long post from one of the senior ARM people at RedHat a couple of years ago talking about how making an arm32 port was going to be effectively impossible starting with RHEL-8, due to changes in the way system configurations were managed in the kernel.

Assuming that those changes actually happened (haven’t looked, all of my production workloads are still on RedSleeve 7), that would seem to leave only Debian and its various derivatives —e.g. Raspbian— for arm32, with all of the volatility that that implies. Not a good prospect.  :(

Cheers!


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