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Re:CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday by bluedino on Monday June 24, 2024 @08:50AM (#40775390)
There are a lot of HPC sysadmins that are very busy lately. A lot of third party software started dropping CentOS 7 support this year, and they never upgraded their clusters to 8/9.

Containers have been a big help.

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Re:CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday by bayindirh on Monday June 24, 2024 @08:54AM (#40775431)
The situation is pretty backwards for us, ironically.

Upgrading the OS is easy. Initial work is a couple of days, rest of the deployment is an hour or so, but the software we need to run doesn't support CentOS 7+. Containerization might help or not, but most software is distributed as RPM packages and some of them are written with things like Python2.7.

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