June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)

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Post by kristianpaul » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 12:56 PM UTC

June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)
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Post by jasoneckert » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 2:30 PM UTC

This EOL date is a generous one. Like my organization, most others I know have already completed their migration from CentOS to RHEL/Fedora/Rocky/Alma/etc during the early part of 2023. Thus, these 6 months are mainly for the few outliers who have not.

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Post by redskyluan » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 2:42 PM UTC

jasoneckert wrote: post #2

This EOL date is a generous one. Like my organization, most others I know have already completed their migration from CentOS to RHEL/Fedora/Rocky/Alma/etc during the early part of 2023. Thus, these 6 months are mainly for the few outliers who have not.

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Post by dralley » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 2:42 PM UTC

Long live CentOS Stream

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Post by thesuperbigfrog » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 2:43 PM UTC

Rocky Linux is a fine successor to CentOS and was created by one of the original founders of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer.

https://rockylinux.org/

https://rockylinux.org/about/

If you need enterprise support RHEL tends to be a default choice.

If you cannot afford RHEL or do not need enterprise support, Rocky Linux fills the role that CentOS once did.

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Post by paulryanrogers » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 2:52 PM UTC

Technically EOL of CentOS 7. Guessing 8 will be supported for a while, then one must decide to switch to CentOS Stream, RHEL proper, or an alternative like Rocky.

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Post by highwind » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 2:52 PM UTC

Hoping for 10 years of support, I adopted Centos 8 a week before the EOL announcement. I never understood why they decided to support 7 longer than 8.

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Post by Nyr » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 2:58 PM UTC

paulryanrogers wrote: post #6

Technically EOL of CentOS 7. Guessing 8 will be supported for a while, then one must decide to switch to CentOS Stream, RHEL proper, or an alternative like Rocky.

CentOS 8 already reached its EOL in December 31st, 2021.

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Post by 0x6c6f6c » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 3:12 PM UTC

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #5

Rocky Linux is a fine successor to CentOS and was created by one of the original founders of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer. https://rockylinux.org/ https://rockylinux.org/about/ If you need enterprise support RHEL tends to be a default choice. If you cannot afford RHEL or do not need enterprise support, Rocky Linux fills the role that CentOS once did.

Another suitable option, which has handled the situation of Red Hat source RPM releases[1] quite a bit better imo, is Alma Linux.

https://almalinux.org/

Similar goal, but is working more directly upstream with Red Hat[2] as opposed to the (as I last had read) undisclosed and non-open approach that Rocky Linux has taken.

1: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-s...

2: https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/

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Post by klysm » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 3:12 PM UTC

Long live Debian