[Arm-dev] Centos 9 status?

Tue Feb 22 14:43:57 UTC 2022
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Good to know.  I am looking on using this for my DNS.

On 2/22/22 02:26, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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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