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.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    2 months ago

    CentOS 7 was already approaching end of life a few years ago, and it’s dead now. There are reasons not to use CentOS 8 or its enterprise counterparts, but this is still very old software for a supposedly new-ish system.

    I never really got why manufacturers like these went for CentOS when Ubuntu exists. You get the same level of support, with the same packages if you really want that SELinux experience, except you can actually upgrade between versions.