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Subject:    Re: [CentOS-devel] [CentOS] CentOS 8 future
From:       Satish Patel <satish.txt () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-12-09 22:22:22
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What do you think about Rocky Linux?
https://news.itsfoss.com/rocky-linux-announcement/

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 4:24 PM Oliver Paukstadt <pstadt@sourcentral.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 21:18 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >
> > I agree the timing of this isn't great but keep in mind the vast
> > majority of CentOS users are on CentOS Linux 7, they have the full
> > lifecycle they expected.
>
> During the last year I updated several of my personal C6 Server to C8
> according to this promise:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20201020102328/https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product
>
> >
> > The relatively fewer that are on CentOS Linux 8 have some decisions
> > to make.  The end of 2021 is sooner than they were expecting *but*
> > there is a fully available upgrade path from CentOS Linux 8 to CentOS
> > Stream 8 (IE: not a reinstall), and that will take them to 2024.
> > That's half of the 10 years they might have expected, but it should
> > let them give Stream a try and see if it is for them or not.
>
> I would recommend a distupgradable distribution not using rpm.
>
> regards,
> Oliver
>
>
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