CentOs End of Life?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 09:18:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> While reworking tap device, one issue is how to keep (or drop) the support
> of older Enterprise releases. The tap flow support is doing some workarounds
> to include missing support, but these are not the right way to do it.
> 
> The question is: is this even worth keeping?
> CentOS 7 reaches end of life in June 2024.
> CentOS 7 is using a kernel which is no longer supported.
> 
> If we drop CentOS 7, that means dropping RHEL7 and would need to be hightlighted
> in the docs.

I thought we had already dropped it. Centos 7 doesn't come by default with
a C11-supporting compiler.

/Bruce