Centos 8 is EOL in 2021, what will xcp-ng do?
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@indyj said in Centos 8 is EOL in 2021, what will xcp-ng do?:
@jefftee I prefer Alpine Linux.
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Low resource footprint, no bloatware... They even have a pre-built Xen Hypervisor ISO flavor
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Xen and Linux kernel inside XCP-ng are completely custom, so it's pretty different than the those shipped in CentOS or even Alpine.
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I've always used Debian LTS for many, many years. Just curious if Debian is anywhere on the radar for the replacement?
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The thing is: everything is RPM based now. Switching to DEB will involve a LOT of work (not only to rebuild everything, but also the build system, now based on Koji etc.)
Note: I like Debian and it's my main server operating system.
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@olivierlambert said in Centos 8 is EOL in 2021, what will xcp-ng do?:
The thing is: everything is RPM based now. Switching to DEB will involve a LOT of work (not only to rebuild everything, but also the build system, now based on Koji etc.)
Note: I like Debian and it's my main server operating system.
Got it. Thanks!
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IMHO, CentOS Stream might do it, alternatively Rocky, but this will be probably a "common" decision with Citrix so we can keep our fork small and contribute to each project easily
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@olivierlambert said in Centos 8 is EOL in 2021, what will xcp-ng do?:
IMHO, CentOS Stream might do it, alternatively Rocky, but this will be probably a "common" decision with Citrix so we can keep our fork small and contribute to each project easily
(and move faster!)I forgot about Citrix. In that case it makes sense to work together. Anything else is double work
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Indeed, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel. We always prefer to work together, there's too many things to do
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Any news what will happened here?
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CentOS 7 will continue to be supported with patches and so on up to June the 30th 2024, so it's not really a priority as we speak. But I'm sure the topic will be discussed during the next Xen summit in June
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Any updates here? We're 8 months away and its worrisome installing new nodes with less than 1 year lifetime.
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As I already explained in different places, what matters is the hypervisor, kernel, OVS and such important packages. We can still backport security fixes ourselves on various packages inside the OS.
XCP-ng is only partially based on CentOS, only using non-critical CentOS packages (NOT the kernel, NOT Xen, NOT OVS, SMAPI/XAPI aren't packaged in CentOS etc.).
XCP-ng is NOT your regular distro, it's an appliance where we backport relevant security fixes.
Be sure that next major version won't even have SSH access enabled by default.
