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This EOL date is a generous one. Like my organization, most others I know have already completed their migration from CentOS to RHEL/Fedora/Rocky/Alma/etc durin

This EOL date is a generous one. Like my organization, most others I know have already completed their migration from CentOS to RHEL/Fedora/Rocky/Alma/etc during the early part of 2023. Thus, these 6 months are mainly for the few outliers who have not.

redskyluan 3y ago
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p_l 3y ago
> already completed their migration from CentOS to RHEL/Fedora/Rocky/Alma/etc during the early part of 2023 ahahahahaha.... OTOH, I no longer work there, I get to watch the fireworks
- geerlingguy 3y ago
  Heh... I still see CentOS 6 with some regularity.
  - p_l 3y ago
    That company had few load-bearing CentOS 6 machines that barely anyone knew how to operate (as in "where are the SSH keys, passwords, where shit is stored on them") and docs were in disarray. The replacement project for remaining CentOS 6 machines was going glacially, but at least didn't endanger compliance. The replacement project for CentOS 7 got sabotaged by management, few people got run out of the company, last I heard the replacement project for the replacement project was going to just end up with few multimillion cheques to OpenLogic so that certain big fat client group doesn't drop them like hot potato on EOL day.
  - 9659 3y ago
    I wouldn't use the word "regularity", but the pleasure of debugging a long standing issue on a RHEL 5 machine came up in December. had to compile git and tcpdump from source. all in all, a pleasant experience. vi is the same.
JeremyNT 3y ago
> This EOL date is a generous one. Like my organization, most others I know have already completed their migration from CentOS to RHEL/Fedora/Rocky/Alma/etc during the early part of 2023. Thus, these 6 months are mainly for the few outliers who have not. I can't disprove your anecdote but do you think this is really true? Orgs who ran CentOS likely did so with the idea that they'd have a very long time to migrate to something different. CentOS 8 nominally had support until something like 2032, so it seems like a really major change to go from almost a decade to a little over a year to migrate away.

redskyluan 3y ago

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p_l 3y ago

> already completed their migration from CentOS to RHEL/Fedora/Rocky/Alma/etc during the early part of 2023 ahahahahaha.... OTOH, I no longer work there, I get to watch the fireworks

geerlingguy 3y ago
Heh... I still see CentOS 6 with some regularity.
- p_l 3y ago
  That company had few load-bearing CentOS 6 machines that barely anyone knew how to operate (as in "where are the SSH keys, passwords, where shit is stored on them") and docs were in disarray. The replacement project for remaining CentOS 6 machines was going glacially, but at least didn't endanger compliance. The replacement project for CentOS 7 got sabotaged by management, few people got run out of the company, last I heard the replacement project for the replacement project was going to just end up with few multimillion cheques to OpenLogic so that certain big fat client group doesn't drop them like hot potato on EOL day.
- 9659 3y ago
  I wouldn't use the word "regularity", but the pleasure of debugging a long standing issue on a RHEL 5 machine came up in December. had to compile git and tcpdump from source. all in all, a pleasant experience. vi is the same.

JeremyNT 3y ago

> This EOL date is a generous one. Like my organization, most others I know have already completed their migration from CentOS to RHEL/Fedora/Rocky/Alma/etc during the early part of 2023. Thus, these 6 months are mainly for the few outliers who have not. I can't disprove your anecdote but do you think this is really true? Orgs who ran CentOS likely did so with the idea that they'd have a very long time to migrate to something different. CentOS 8 nominally had support until something like 2032, so it seems like a really major change to go from almost a decade to a little over a year to migrate away.