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| 2021-03-08 |
Downgrading CentOS |
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If there was ever a competition for the most infuriating announcement in the Linux world, then one of the top prices for 2020 will surely have to go to Red Hat's discontinuation of CentOS 8. CentOS was 100% binary compatible with the company's own enterprise-level platform and completely free to download and use, so it is perhaps unsurprising that somebody at Red Hat saw it as a threat to the company's business model and decided to put a stop to it. But if CentOS 8 is no longer an option, what about its predecessor, CentOS 7? Last week, Dedoimedo's Igor Ljubuncic took a look at the legacy branch of CentOS, arriving to a rather surprising conclusion: "I knew CentOS is rock solid, and I didn't expect any complications, but the results surpass my own expectations. I guess I've been removed from the good ole stuff for too long to remember and appreciate the steadfast simplicity from the heyday of the desktop - roughly the first half of the past decade. And if I think more deeply about it, CentOS 7 actually has a wider collection of software available than its successor, as lots of the stuff, even in RPM Fusion and EPEL, didn't make it into CentOS 8. Like LyX. The one thing I'm missing here is Plasma 5, so maybe I will actually hassle myself up to get this working all nice and proper like, just for fun." According to the project's wiki, CentOS 7 will continue receiving support until June 2024, while CentOS 8 will be completely discontinued in December 2021. |
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