Question for the RL team here. Would providing the last major version in maintenance support ie. 7 be a possibility and then say 8 when it got to 8.10 ? or are those updates not published by RH ? It’s just that reliability/stability is a very large part of choosing a RHEL clone but if you can only…

So, to sum up (correct me if I’m wrong), LTS - as in a stable version that only includes fixes for an extended period - is achievable by only taking on the last minor version of any major version and then some time after it has settled. You can then expect up to 5 yrs of relative* stability and thes…

What’s your point ? RH provide 5 yrs of maintenance updates on the last major release. I’m asking if RL can do the same.

CIQ offer support for Rocky so I guess if you pay for it then maybe is possible.

Looks like the thing to do for LTS/Stabililty was to stay on CentOS 7 until 2024 then move to RL 8.10 and stay there for the next 5 yrs.

It seems you have the notion that minor version updates introduce instability. Alternatively try to see a minor version update just like a bunch of updates, like a service pack in the windows world, i.e. there is just Rocky 8 (until 2029). please have a look at [image] Red Hat Enterprise L…

[image] anemarkus: It seems you have the notion that minor version updates introduce instability. The last minor update broke my DE. True, a service pack might screw you over too… [image] anemarkus: RHEL 8 is supported from 2019 until 2029 Apparently RHEL 8.5 is only supported for 6 m…

An entire RHEL release is LTS. It doesn’t matter which way you slice it, it is an LTS. Once the 5 year mark has it, there’s no more minor releases because it is now in maintenance only mode. You’re misleading yourself if you feel the need to wait until the very last minor release to be “LTS”. In re…

[image] label: An entire RHEL release is LTS. It doesn’t matter which way you slice it, it is an LTS. Once the 5 year mark has it, there’s no more minor releases because it is now in maintenance only mode. You’re misleading yourself if you feel the need to wait until the very last minor release …

[image] label: You’re misleading yourself if you feel the need to wait until the very last minor release to be “LTS”. The change that broke KDE in 8.6 was a bungled feature addition to RHEL. Features aren’t added in a stable LTS and in RHEL they don’t happen in the last 5 yrs - just fixes. Fe…

Is LTS a possibility at all

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bobar May 25, 2022, 1:12pm 5

I found this which seems to say when 9 comes out you can stay on RL 8.10 with updates for the next 5 years.

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Is LTS a possibility at all

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