How Long Should a Vendor Support a Distro?
Found on Slashdot on Sunday, 27 December 2020
Long-term Slashdot reader couchslug believes that "Howls of anguish from betrayed CentOS 8 users highlight the value of its long support cycles..." Earlier this month it was announced that at the end of 2021, the community-supported rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS 8, "will no longer be maintained," though CentOS 7 "will stick around in a supported maintenance state until 2024."
That's up to the vendor, but suddenly axing the EOL in the middle of a release, along with making it effectively beta (from stable) is not the right way to communicate this.