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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 28, 2023
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=> ↺ Red Hat Has Finally Given CentOS 7 a Cloud Upgrade Plan
CentOS Linux 7, the community-supported distribution derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is set to reach its end-of-life (EOL) on June 30, 2024. After this date, systems running CentOS Linux 7 will cease to receive software updates and security patches. What to do? Well, you can switch to one of the RHEL clones, such as AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux, but while that works with servers, on the cloud it’s a different story. There’s no good way to cleanly migrate from CentOS 7 to any other operating system on the clouds, until now.
Why? Well, as Gunnar Hellekson, RHEL’s vice president and general manager, explained at Red Hat Summit 2023 “It’s actually very difficult to migrate. Read the documentation. It’ll say, in order to move from CentOS to something else, you have to shut the machine down and destroy it and create a new server with your new operating system.” That’s not acceptable.
=> ↺ Red Hat promises AI trained on 'curated' and 'domain-specific' data
In Red Hat land, some things remain the same – Fedora will still be supported, we're told – while others, including AI-driven applications, are starting to surface.
This year's Red Hat Summit wasn't the usual lowkey event. Coming on the heels of Red Hat's first layoffs, it felt fair to brace for a somber air. Instead, the energy seemed high as Red Hat talked up its forthcoming releases.
After the company's recent four percent layoffs, many Fedora Linux users noticed that the popular community Linux distro took some hits. In particular, Fedora Program Manager Ben Cotton had been laid off. This led to Fedora fans wondering if their favorite Linux distribution would be cut back.
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