Lansweeper's scans of its customers' networks found an awful lot of Linux boxes facing an imminent end of life, with no direct upgrade path. This is, to be clear, a very bad thing.
Centos Linux EoL – RedHat made a terrible decision
The latest survey shows that there is quite a bit more usage of CentOS Linux 7 than one might reasonably expect. While we'd definitely question Lansweeper's conclusions, it looks like CentOS Linux has achieved pretty good market penetration — and penetration is exactly what all these machines will be open to starting next month.
The Belgian enterprise network scanner provider Lansweeper periodically compiles some of the statistics collected by its users and publishes the results. The registry has reported on these figures more than once. Last year, Lansweeper revealed Windows 11's 8 percent usage following the previous year's report that four out of ten PCs couldn't run Windows 11.
This year's report says that while a third of users' Linux machines run Ubuntu, second place goes to CentOS Linux. Back in 2020, Red Hat brought CentOS Linux 8's end-of-life forward from 2029 to the end of 2021. CentOS Linux 9 was discontinued, CentOS Linux 8 is dead and gone, leaving only CentOS Linux 7. As we reported in May, CentOS 7: s end of life is very close now – the end of June. After this month, no more updates.
