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It's literally the oldest most out of date Linux distro available (even this update), so probably. CentOS recently added Python 2.7 instead of Python 2.6...
by mlindner 9y ago
It's literally the oldest most out of date Linux distro available (even this update), so probably. CentOS recently added Python 2.7 instead of Python 2.6...
- dnhz 9y agoWell what are the downsides of this? One is not limited to Python 2.7 because of the operating system, for instance.
- cpitman 9y agoWe (Red Hat) also released an easy way to do a side by side install of newer tooling without impacting the OS. Python 3 was released on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2013, and we currently support Python 3.6. Here's more on how software collections work and what is released: https://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/overview/ https://developers.redhat.com/products/softwarecollections/o...
- sciurus 9y agoI'm pretty sure RHEL 7.0, which was released in 2014, shipped with Python 2.7 as the default.
- digitalzombie 9y agoIIRC it's a clone of redhat and redhat is in the business of support. Big companies goes to red hat because they promise to support software beyond their life cycle for years. So that's that.
- rdtsc 9y agoYou see old and crusty, users see a stable software API that receives security updates for decades.