[bitfolk] A reminder that CentOS 8 is now EOL and they are not kidding about that

Hi, For those using CentOS 8, a reminder that it went EOL on 31 December 2021 and as of 31 January 2022 they removed all the public mirrors as well, so you can't get updates or install anything any more. This apparently took a number of projects by surprise… including some Red Hat ones! https://lists.ceph.io/hyperkitty/list/dev@ceph.io/thread/Y4HU5BQHZNGVLXLUUA… If you are using CentOS 8 I think we would recommend that you switch it to CentOS Stream 8 at least in the short term, because that is the only way you get security updates. I understand that there is a simple script to do this without reinstall and at least 1 BitFolk customer has done it. In terms of BitFolk supporting CentOS Stream 9, we're waiting for ELRepo to gain an EL9 kernel-ml package, then that should be viable. I asked you all about your plans post-CentOS 8 and didn't get a huge response. Some interest was expressed in Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux. So, those will likely be available soon. A customer also put together instructions for installing OpenSUSE Leap, which I have run through and seems to work fine: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/User:Moggers87/Installing_Opensuse Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce(a)lists.bitfolk.com https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce