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

[Sameer Verma]

On Jul 20, 2014 11:57 AM, "Anish Mangal" <anishmg at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> When I had checked the release notes a few days ago, there wasn't any ARM
support, at least officially.
>

Keeping that constraint in mind, it may still be worthwhile to try out the
build process on CentOS 7. I didn't get much success on CentOS 6.X.

It may also be worthwhile to explore the portability of the ansible-driven
install process on Debian for ARM.

Cheers,
Sameer
> On Jul 21, 2014 12:04 AM, "Adam Holt" <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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