[Server-devel] CentOS 7.0 Released, 3 years after CentOS 6.0

[Adam Holt]

Is it time to consider this industrial-strength OS, promising "full updates
til Q4 2020" and 10 yrs of "maintenance updates til 30 June 2024" ?

   http://CentOS.org
   http://wiki.CentOS.org/Download

Or do we consider alternatives, reflecting complaints CentOS is no longer
sufficiently community-driven ??

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7998698

We're certainly at a very unique moment in time suddenly.  In Haiti, quite
a number of high schools are moving to Linux Mint 17 LTS based on Ubuntu
14.04, with laptop security updates promised until "April 2019", for
similar reasons (rich countries may tolerate it, but developing world
schools have had Quite Enough of the Fedora-like upgrade treadmill pushed
upon them by self-interested Silicon Valley types..)
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