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#CentOS 7 Will go end of life in about 2 months, and this isn’t the usual EOL distribution: this time, it’s the entire distribution that is being shelved, without any upgrade path.
So I decided to take a look at why it’s a bigger deal than usual, and invited Joao Correia from TuxCare and the Enterprise Linux Podcast for an interview, to explain the issues in more detail, since they are experts about this.
@thelinuxEXP CentOS has never offered an official upgrade path between major versions. We did offer an official upgrade path from CentOS Linux 8 to CentOS Stream 8, because they're really two variants of the same distro, not an entirely different distro.
Have you reached out to anyone in the CentOS project (the actual experts on CentOS) to talk about CentOS?
While everyone has been talking about #xz's backdoor I've been working on a patch for an AlmaLinux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2024-1086) that #rhel has yet to release a fix for (though #centos stream is patched). It's quite a nasty privilege escalation vulnerability so I suggest updating ASAP.
This is a very cool and easy to follow story of one person's personal needs for their server.
They start with assuming they stability as high as RHEL with consistent versioning, but over time containers erases that concern so they are freed up to think about other nice things like having newer software.
If you've wondered why people use Fedora Server when CentOS and RHEL exist, this is one reason!