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.
Its 3.10.0-1160, which means it’s CentOS 7.9 that was released at the end of 2020. It was a super old kernel at the time of release though.
RHEL 7 just ended maintenance support a month ago and there’s 4 years of ELS before it’s completely end of life.