[CentOS] [CentOS-devel] CentOS 8 future

Leon Fauster
2020-12-09T20:54:25Z

Am 09.12.20 um 20:28 schrieb Jon Pruente:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 5:24 AM Leon Fauster via CentOS
> <centos at centos.org <mailto:centos at centos.org>> wrote:
>
>      > The relatively fewer that are on CentOS Linux 8 have some
>     decisions to
>      > make.? The end of 2021 is sooner than they were expecting *but*
>     there is
>      > a fully available upgrade path from CentOS Linux 8 to CentOS
>     Stream 8
>      > (IE: not a reinstall), and that will take them to 2024.?
That's
>     half of
>      > the 10 years they might have expected, but it should let them
give
>      > Stream a try and see if it is for them or not.
>
>     If "Stream" is the base for the next RHEL8.x where are the
updates
>     until
>     2029 coming from, when CentOS Stream 8 will be shutdown at 2024?
>
>
> I think you've confused some dates,?unless you have a link to the
> 2024?date for Stream?8. CentOS 7 will continue until 2024. CentOS Stream
> 8 doesn't have a clear EOL, but it is presumably at or before the end
of
> RHEL 8 in 2029. CentOS 8 EOL has been yanked back to 2021.
>
> https://centos.org/centos-stream/ <https://centos.org/centos-stream/>
>  > End-of-life
>  > N/A

No, its exactly as I said:

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-December/352340.html

https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q13-can-i-start-up-a-sig-that-will-maintain-centos-stream-8-after-rhel8-reaches-the-end-of-full-support

(full-support -> 2024).

--
Leon