Experienced first hand... Beware of migration from Rocky8 to Rocky9 may not work if your computer is a bit old. Some drivers may have been depreciated and may even not boot up, thanks to ACPI etc.
I think there is a big market for long LTS distributions: 10 years isn't enough for a couple of my customers. Why nobody stepped in? Those today distro struggle because there are too many packages to be mantained but probably 60-70% of them are not essentials.
I agree, my customer was DoD, and they would keep systems running until the paint was falling off them. I know of a couple of distros which offer extended support beyond the 10 years, mainly for security patches and phone support.
I think that’s a gap that won’t be filled by a district. It’s currently being filled by the places providing extended support (Red Hat, Tuxcare, OpenLogic, etc), because the use cases that need that kind of lifecycle are also more likely to pay for it.
its an initramfs build not dkms....
Big Blue, killed Red Hat!
Nope, RH committed suite.
Don't worry DJ Ware. We gonna figure out Sent-SOS for CentOS, in rescue-mode, of course!
Experienced first hand... Beware of migration from Rocky8 to Rocky9 may not work if your computer is a bit old. Some drivers may have been depreciated and may even not boot up, thanks to ACPI etc.
i wish I understood computer technology like DJ ware
He has decades of experience, you just need to continue on your way.
Isn't Leap something from OpenSUSE ?
There is a distro from OpenSUSE called Leap, Elevate uses a command called leapp
I think there is a big market for long LTS distributions: 10 years isn't enough for a couple of my customers. Why nobody stepped in? Those today distro struggle because there are too many packages to be mantained but probably 60-70% of them are not essentials.
I agree, my customer was DoD, and they would keep systems running until the paint was falling off them. I know of a couple of distros which offer extended support beyond the 10 years, mainly for security patches and phone support.
I think that’s a gap that won’t be filled by a district. It’s currently being filled by the places providing extended support (Red Hat, Tuxcare, OpenLogic, etc), because the use cases that need that kind of lifecycle are also more likely to pay for it.
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