Using Centos Long term
Posted: 2018/02/17 19:39:27
Hi
I use centos 6 as my browsing desktop and a server and am now considering moving all my
business equipment to a Linux distro away from windows. (Win10 was the final
nail in the spyware coffin here)
I noticed that the closure date between centos 4 and centos 5 was just 4 years
(or have I miss-understood?)
I would expect the life of an OS to be at least 10 years and an enterprise one
significantly longer.
Are there any specific age related commitments either to centos or red-hat
as this would make things a bit more comfortable.
Also there is a lot of new tech being released on motherboards these
days - is the support for that well funded at red-hat to provide fairly
quick implementations and centos feed through do you know?
I ask because some of my applications (PCB design for instance) benefit
greatly from the newer technologies coming through (faster buses - SSD on board
USB 3.1 GPU's etc.) and I'm about to upgrade some hardware too.
(Intel also have a new fast bus apparently)
I know this may be a bit vague to respond to but I'd welcome some
feedback even if its just at "gut feeling" level if its from a centos developer. (Or other insider)
Also an idea of life left in Centos 7 would be good.
I use centos 6 as my browsing desktop and a server and am now considering moving all my
business equipment to a Linux distro away from windows. (Win10 was the final
nail in the spyware coffin here)
I noticed that the closure date between centos 4 and centos 5 was just 4 years
(or have I miss-understood?)
I would expect the life of an OS to be at least 10 years and an enterprise one
significantly longer.
Are there any specific age related commitments either to centos or red-hat
as this would make things a bit more comfortable.
Also there is a lot of new tech being released on motherboards these
days - is the support for that well funded at red-hat to provide fairly
quick implementations and centos feed through do you know?
I ask because some of my applications (PCB design for instance) benefit
greatly from the newer technologies coming through (faster buses - SSD on board
USB 3.1 GPU's etc.) and I'm about to upgrade some hardware too.
(Intel also have a new fast bus apparently)
I know this may be a bit vague to respond to but I'd welcome some
feedback even if its just at "gut feeling" level if its from a centos developer. (Or other insider)
Also an idea of life left in Centos 7 would be good.