[Starlingx-discuss] Multi OS Meeting Notes & Initial Centos-8 Alternatives

[Jones, Bruce E]

Saul, I think we have several options here:

1) Continue to support the current hybrid CentOS7/8 that we have today
2) Accelerate the Open Embedded effort
3) Support some other RPM-based OS (e.g. SUSE)

Based on previous work in this space, I don't think making StarlingX OS independent is realistic, so I don't include it in the list.  

Both 2) and 3) above are a lot of work.  

What issues might we have with option 1)?

           brucej

-----Original Message-----
From: Saul Wold <Saul.Wold at windriver.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 9:06 AM
To: starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] Multi OS Meeting Notes & Initial Centos-8 Alternatives


StarlingX Community:

As has been announced Long Term Support for CentOS-8 will be going away in December of 2021 (1 year away). CentOS-Stream will be the "replacement", but has some challenges due to the update policy and possible patching of CVEs in packages.

Listed below are additional options, please provide feedback so we can start discussing options here and during the next set of calls.

I would like to hear if there are ideas I am missing or other proposals.

Thanks
   Sau!



MultiOS Team Meeting - 12/22/2020
- meta-starlingx
   - No update at this point.
  - Starting the CentOS-8 Alternatives discussion
    - CentOS-8 is not getting long term support (stops in Dec 2021)
    - CentOS-7 Short - medium term (CVEs 2024)
      - Question about support for new hardware?
  - RHEL Alternatives
    - Cloudlinux / RockyLinux
    - CentOS-Stream may not be stable enought
      - What's the CVE support commitment for older packages
  - Debian / Ubuntu
    - Technical challenges with rpm->deb packaging
    - Ubuntu has known branding / licenses issues
  - OpenEmbedded / Yocto Project meta-startlingx
    - Work in progress already using StarlingX-3.0
  - SuSE / OpenSuse
    - RPM based
  - Make StarlingX platform agnostic
    - Currently there is a custom kernel and userspace
    - Need to get rid of custom userspace.
  - Oracle Linux

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Sau!

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