Am I crazy in thinking that the shop I was in that has CentOS 3 running their self checkouts should have a more up to date and currently supported OS? These are brand new self checkouts (the shop has had them for about a year now, but you get my point.)

It’s a genuine question. Am I wrong in thinking that using this OS on a self checkout is a terrible idea? (FWIW this shop is an international retailer)

I have no stake in the shop or anything. I just happened to be there when they had to reboot a self checkout and I noticed the OS version as I was going by.

  • fin
    4·
    4 months ago

    Is CentOS still getting updates? I thought it’s killed by Redhat years ago.

    • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      It does not, a few Cisco appliances in our company run / ran cent and AFAIK the infra teams all had to migrate to alma and move everything over with some script from Cisco.

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
      1·
      4 months ago

      Cent7 stopped getting updates last month. There is at least one mirror still providing the old updates. Not sure about newer versions