NethServer and CentOS EOL

[dasuberadmin]

With the EOL of CentOS coming, how does NethServer plan to deal with this change?

[m.traeumner (Michael Träumner)]

Hi @dasuberadmin and welcome to the community.
At the the time the developers work on a container solution with Fedora and Debian. For more information about the progress you should have a look at the following thread:

NethServer 8: planning an evolution

During the last month, Nethesis had some meetings to plan the future of NethServer. We would like to share our thoughts and get your feedback. CentOS 8 is out for a year and it can be considered stable, but is it mature enough for our purposes? We did some experiments and we found that: it’s a cloud-oriented distribution focused on containers many things we use in NethServer 7 are missing (notably SCL) it’s not a good distribution for an UTM firewall: nftables is the new default with limite…

[dasuberadmin]

Hi @m.traeumner ! Thank you for this reference, this helps to understand where neth is headed.

My $0.02 on the question " * is the all-in-one server still a valid solution? " would be “Yes” because that is why I came to Neth but that’s probably just me

[danb35 (Dan)]

And just to be clear, it’s CentOS 8 that is going EOL in a month. CentOS 7, which is what Neth uses, is good until 30 Jun 24.

[giacomo (Giacomo Sanchietti)]

@dasuberadmin

My $0.02 on the question " * is the all-in-one server still a valid solution?

Except for the firewall, the answer is yes. At least we are working to make it so