And there’s a special offer on the CentOS-compatible Liberty Linux
As SUSE ascends its self-imposed ALP, this version may be the last of the fixed release cycle for openSUSE Leap.
Last week at SUSECon, the annual conference for Europe’s longest-established Linux vendor, the company announced the latest update to its current long-term supported enterprise server distro, SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6. SLE 15 came out way back in 2018. With this release, its supported lifespan lasts to 2037, as the (somewhat typo-riddled) announcement puts it:
In other words, that’s 13 years from now. Even so, it’s the longest support lifetime in the industry. It means paying users of SLE 15 will get critical updates until shortly before the Unix epoch in January 2038, which is about as long as anyone in the Unix world can guarantee anything.
For disillusioned CentOS or Red Hat refugees, it’s an enticing prospect, and SUSE knows it. It’s also got a special offer on its CentOS-Linux compatible distro, Liberty Linux:
Before you get too excited, though, the stinger is the minimum order size:
Still, if you have a significant number of CentOS Linux 7 boxes still running, this extends your deadline to migrate them to June 30, 2028.
