Re: CentOS - what to use now that CentOS 7 is EOL

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On Thu, 2024-10-31 at 07:47 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
> CentOS 7 went EOL in June. To that end, what does the Fedora
> community recommend as a replacement/alternative?

That may depend on your reasons for using CentOS.  You (in a later
message) mentioned one reason being because you also used a CentOS
machine elsewhere.  But was that only only/main reason?  For some
people (including me), we used it because it had a longer lifespan than
Fedora.

For me, it was a local web server, mail server, file server, dhcp
server, etc.  It didn't have to do much else, so having the latest and
greatest wasn't *as* important as not having to deal with an all-too-
regular upheaval of updating the entire OS on a system that I relied on
to just grind away at doing its job.

Before finding CentOS, I did use Fedora as my server, and having to
deal with that upheaval *was* a major pain, not just a potential
concern.  So, often, the server was left to run a very out of date
installation for a long time (which is still a possibility if you don't
feel the system is vulnerable to attack *).  And now, like you, I find
myself in that same position again.

* I have an ancient Mac from 2009 next to me that cannot be updated. 
All it has to do is video editing.  It can carry on doing that until
the hardware actually dies.
 
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