Hi Guys,

So for what I know is that the last enterprise stable and ready version is 8.X. 
After that it will be a stream Version.
A reliable system would be RHEL as a commercial one and Rocky Linux as a exact 
successor from CentOS or let’s say binary clone from RHEL.

Since CloudStack support RHEL and in the newest release of Rocky there is no 
reason to support more CentOS Stream in the future.

Personally. Rocky takes the place. Gregory Kurtzer a founder from CentOS was 
too the founder from Rocky Linux. I think it’s a good place in replacement. The 
move from Red Hat was Open Source mind not a good decision but from financial 
aspect a good move but it was to be expected.

Cheers

Sven

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Von: Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com.INVALID>
Gesendet: Monday, December 20, 2021 8:54:25 PM
An: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
Betreff: Re: CentOS 8 EOL

If you are suggesting that ACS picked a version of Linux, supported it
with an update repo and guaranteed that it would run forever under ACS
as long as you kept up with the ACS published updates, that might solve
a lot of problems for system administrators.
At least there would be a "recommended" Linux that ACS guaranteed would
run under Cloudstack.

Are there a lot of different functionalities in the various Linux
versions that make a difference when running applications under Cloudstack?

Can one pick a Linux distribution that would run all the apps that 95%
of Cloudstack users actually need? It seems that a lot of the
differences in Linux distributions are in the desktop apps.

Ron

On 2021-12-20 10:18, Nathan McGarvey wrote:
> All/any,
>      Realistically, since CentOS Stream doesn't have minor versions, I'm
> not really sure how you *could* support it. It would be like supporting
> CentOS 7.0-7.9, but not knowing which version someone is running. You'd
> have to only support the "latest" version as of <date/time>, which might
> be chaos.
>
>      Both Rocky and Alma have fairly decent corporate backers, at least
> for the immediate term. (Alma being their parent company pledging
> 1M/year at least until 2029 to finish out the 8 release cycle, and Rocky
> has about 2M/year at the moment, but could flex more.)
>      Even Oracle, with their RHEL rebuild could be used in a similar
> manner, though I'd probably not recommend them due to their long track
> record of open-source interactions being less-than-ideal.
>
>      Perhaps ACS can just pick one of the rebuilds (E.g. Rocky), but
> actually publish stuff as just "EL" like EPEL does? It shouldn't really
> matter, aside from /etc/os-release files and such. Perhaps ACS can do
> what many utilities do and make a "OS Family" determination (Ref:
> puppet, ansible, etc.) Instead of a strict "exact same" OS requirement.
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Nathan McGarvey
>
>
>
>
> On 12/16/21 10:40 AM, Nicolas Vazquez wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> CentOS 8 will reach EOL on 31st December this year 
>> -https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/
>>
>> Opening this thread for discussion on the actions needed: should we drop 
>> support on the next 4.16.1 release and onwards?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nicolas Vazquez
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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