[BlueOnyx:24451] Reminder: 5207R/5208R/6108R EOL 30th Nov 2020

[Michael Stauber]

Hi all,

Small reminder to everyone that CentOS 6 goes EOL on 30th Nov 2020.

With the upcoming End-of-Life of CentOS 6 on 30th Nov 2020 our oldest
still supported versions of BlueOnyx (5207R and 5208R) will also reach
the end of their life cycle and no further YUM updates or PKGs will be
released for them. Aventurin{e} 6108R will also reach it's EOL at the
same date.

If you are still using BlueOnyx 5207R or BlueOnyx 5208R, then please
make time to migrate to BlueOnyx 5210R (the latest version of BlueOnyx,
running on CentOS 8) or at least consider moving to BlueOnyx 5209R,
which runs on CentOS 7.

     - BlueOnyx 5209R (on CentOS 7) EOL date June 30, 2024.
     - BlueOnyx 5210R (on CentOS 8) EOL date May 31, 2029.

The easiest and hassle free migration from an older BlueOnyx to a newer
one can be achieved via "Easy-Migrate". The procedure for that is nice
and clean and it's a quantum leap better than the old CMU migrations.

With that we're bidding a very fond farewell to CentOS 6, which for more
than nine years has been a rock solid base OS for four BlueOnyx and two
Aventurin{e} platforms.

P.S.: If you need any help or pointers during migrations, then please
feel free to ask here.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber