<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><span style="font-family:arial">On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Justin Smith </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial"><<a href="mailto:justin@adminix.net" target="_blank">justin@adminix.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial"> wrote:</span><br>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">A CentOS 7 release candidate has been release, for those who are curious: <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-July/011288.html" target="_blank">http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2014-July/011288.html</a><span style="font-size:9pt"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">Since CentOS 7's release seems to be imminent, we should probably begin planning our transition to CentOS 7.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">
Why?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">RHEL5 is supported through 2017Q1 (ELS** 2020Q1).</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">RHEL6 is supported through 2020Q4 (ELS** 2023Q4).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">No reason to transition systems to RHEL7 until there is a feature absolutely desired.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">And with RHEL6 offering Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) [2a], with CentOS6 also rebuilding them (SCL) [2b], there is little reason to upgrade just for a newer scripting language or DB.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">RHEL, and downstream CentOS, is designed to avoid the need to transition, with sustaining engineering on releases long abandoned by the Upstream, for the long-term. It's why a lot of downstream solutions, both open source and proprietary (e.g., VMware ESX's run-time platform with its HyperVisor), use Red Hat core ABI and key components.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">-- bjs</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">[1] <a href="https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/">https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/</a></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">[2a] <a href="https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl">https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">
[2b] <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL">http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL</a></div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>