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Whats so special about Centos 7? Just migrate to Almalinux and elevate up to 9 [1]. The only big difference that comes to mind is openssl3.

[1] https://wiki.almalinux.org/elevate/ELevating-CentOS7-to-Alma...

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A lot of businesses are stuck with old systems they can't "just" update to a new OS version because everyone who knew why the system exists and what weird quirks it has, has long left the company. Alma 9 comes with ABI-incompatible upgrades to postgres/java/mysql/libc/literally every library you could possibly depend on, which is rough on in-house software that nobody wants to fund ongoing maintenance for.

It just tends to hit RHEL/CentOS harder than other distros because they're considered "enterprise" and thus get used more by the sort of dysfunctional companies who manage themselves into dead ends.

The whole point is wanting to shift the support burden to the distro provider. They have to maintain a consistent environment while also upgrading the security and hardware compatibility. That gives you those advantages without having to update your application.

I agree that people should be moving on from CentOS 7 by now and also agree that Alma is a great target. Alma is shooting for binary compatibility with RHEL without just blindly recompiling the RHEL sources. They start with CentOS Stream just like RHEL does.

I think it's the last release you can cling to old ifcfg scripts or whatever they are called. But yeah. Just update your shit.

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