[Arm-dev] Centos 9 status?

Tue Feb 22 07:20:01 UTC 2022
Andreas Reschke <arm_ml at rirasoft.de>

Am 21.02.22 um 22:21 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
> Yes, Gordon.  I may well come back to RedSleeve where I did some work 
> back 10years ago, about.
>
> Or specific NAS boxes and leave this behind.  I am looking at the 
> Synology and Asustor NAS for just a mail server and a DNS server. 
> Internal NAS I went with QNAP, but as decent as QNAP is for SMB, it 
> just does not cut it for these other servers.  I was given the QNAP, 
> so that was a big incentive to use it to replace my 10+ yearold 
> CLEAROS server.  But so far Synology or Asustor are leading as I look 
> at retiring from this OS stuff other than my notebook's Fedora.
>
> I may have a LOT of Cubieboards (2 and3) available for cheap.
>
> On 2/21/22 14:07, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> RedSleeve has had an arm32 el8 build for some time:
>> https://ftp.redsleeve.org/pub/el8/
>> Since June 2019.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 9:01 PM Stephen John Smoogen 
>> <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 12:13, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2/21/22 09:55, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 09:35, Robert Moskowitz 
>>>> <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>>>> Greetings and long time not been around.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am looking at getting a current Centos-arm DNS server going and
>>>>> managed with Webmin instead of doing it myself (currently running 
>>>>> my DNS
>>>>> on Cubieboard2 and Centos7 all zones hand-crafted).
>>>>>
>>>>> So I was looking at getting Centos8-arm and noticed that EoL is
>>>>> 6/30/2024!  What?
>>>>>
>>>> I have a lot of questions in order to try and answer anything here. 
>>>> When you are speaking about arm, do you mean arm32 or aarch64? Also 
>>>> where did you see the EoL notice? CentOS Stream 8 does end in June 
>>>> 30, 2024 but I don't know where anything mentions CentOS Linux arm 
>>>> for that date.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I should have said, arm32.
>>>>
>>> So arm32 is a special case being run by a volunteer. The download 
>>> page you pointed to only covers EL7. EL8 support for ARM32 may be 
>>> gone and would be hard to continue due to the fact that it is done 
>>> on EOL hardware. [ It is either done on some donated older hardware 
>>> or done as virtual machines on Ampere systems which allowed for 
>>> that. Newer models do not have any ARM32 support in them]. Due to 
>>> the lack of hardware support and the fact that a lot of software is 
>>> having a harder time compiling due to the standard 4GB limit, I am 
>>> expecting that Debian and Yocto will be the only large distributions 
>>> for ARM32 with 4 years or so.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Stephen J Smoogen.
>>> Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard 
>>> battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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Hello Robert,

even Fedora will leave the support of arm32 at next release (Fedora 36, 
Info from Peter Robinson?) I have removed all my Odroid HC1 running as 
server for various things (DNS, Mail, httpd, Pihole, ...) and replaced 
with with Raspberry Pi4 on Almalinux and x86_64 Mini-PC also running 
with Almalinux. So nothing more with arm32.

I'm a fan of CentOS for many years (since CentOS 5).

Andreas