Hmm, I see a relation here. C7Linux - 2024 C8Linux - 2021 So I assume: C6Linux - 2027 C5Linux - 2030 C4Linux - 2033 ... Interesting. On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, 21:44 Phil Perry, <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote: > On 05/01/2021 19:32, Jamie Burchell wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've recently discovered the announcement regarding the change in > direction > > for the CentOS project and I imagine like many others, I'm confused and > > concerned about what this means moving forward. > > > > I work for a small web development agency and we offer hosting as part of > > our package to clients who need it. We have many CentOS 7 web servers > > (DigitalOcean droplets) (LAMP/LEMP) that I look after and today I'm > > thankful I have only migrated one of those to CentOS 8, given the recent > > announcement about its curtailed EOL. I literally just went to the Wiki > > today to confirm the EOL date for EL7 and boy am I glad I spotted it. > > > > Given we are not developing drivers or applications (other than websites > > and web applications), is the change a non-issue for my use-case? I've > seen > > it written that CentOS Stream is the "development version" of RHEL but > also > > that we shouldn't have considered RHEL to be the beta for CentOS. Others > > have said to think of CentOS more like RHEL RC-1. I just don't know how > the > > stability will compare and we have historically always chosen CentOS for > > its stability (and of course price). > > > > Sure, I could migrate to Ubuntu (I use this locally in WSL), but I've > > become somewhat "comfy slippers" with CentOS and have built our setup > > around it (including custom ansible scripts etc) and don't want to change > > everything unncessarily. > > > > Of course, a lot of this is somewhat dependent on what DigitalOcean will > > decide to provide image wise moving forward. > > > > I'm sorry if this has already been answered, I spent a good few hours > > reading through the respective threads in the devel list and ended up > more > > confused than I started. > > > > Cheers, > > Jamie > > Hi Jamie, > > Unfortunately no one can advise you as to what may be a suitable > operating system for your business needs. > > One thing is clear, the operating system you are currently running > (CentOS Linux) is being brought to end of life, version 7 in 2024 and > version 8 in 2021. > > That gives you at least a year (for 8) if not longer to consider and > evaluate alternatives. As your current OS will no longer exist, I would > start with a blank sheet, look at the OSes that do exist and evaluate > each based on it's merits and suitability for your business needs and > requirements. > > Cheers, > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >