[Arm-dev] Centos 9 status?

Tue Feb 22 07:26:26 UTC 2022
Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org>

Well, the good news is that EL9 being based on F34, can be easily
bootstrapped and rebuilt on F34.
And since EL9 will be maintained until 2032+, there is plenty of scope
to have EL9 on arm32 supported for the foreseeable future.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 9:20 AM Andreas Reschke <arm_ml at rirasoft.de> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
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