Future OS Support (Alternatives to Centos 8)
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:01 am
Hello Vesta CP Community and Devs.
I have been using Vesta CP on Centos 7 for a few years now and absolutely love it. At the same time, being a CentOS user, I was devastated when Red Hat made the announcement to kill Centos 8 early. The announcement sent shockwaves through the tech industry.
Although there are now a few announced replacements for Centos 8, namely "Rocky Linux" and "AlmaLinux", the problem is, there is no long term history to gauge their stability. I personally have taken a liking to "Oracle Linux" which has a good history and is a compatable downstream of RHEL.
So far the only difference I have been able to truly have issue with is the "epel-release" which is named "oracle-epel-release-el8" which took me a while to find, so I am assuming some things will be named differently in some of the different alternatives.
Is there any talk of what will happen to VestaCP after Centos 7 on the RHEL side? I Know I could always switch over to Ubuntu or at the very least Debian... but I would prefer not to... at all costs.
I have been using Vesta CP on Centos 7 for a few years now and absolutely love it. At the same time, being a CentOS user, I was devastated when Red Hat made the announcement to kill Centos 8 early. The announcement sent shockwaves through the tech industry.
Although there are now a few announced replacements for Centos 8, namely "Rocky Linux" and "AlmaLinux", the problem is, there is no long term history to gauge their stability. I personally have taken a liking to "Oracle Linux" which has a good history and is a compatable downstream of RHEL.
So far the only difference I have been able to truly have issue with is the "epel-release" which is named "oracle-epel-release-el8" which took me a while to find, so I am assuming some things will be named differently in some of the different alternatives.
Is there any talk of what will happen to VestaCP after Centos 7 on the RHEL side? I Know I could always switch over to Ubuntu or at the very least Debian... but I would prefer not to... at all costs.