Announcing the New SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7 Offer

According to Enlyft, there are almost 400,000 CentOS users today. If you are one of them, you know that in less than two weeks, your once trusted and stable CentOS 7 will go end of life. That means that the security patches and maintenance updates that were once readily available from the CentOS community will no longer be available. You might be feeling pushed into a risky migration or costly upgrade just to keep your operating system secure. But what if there was a better way?

Reducing the Barrier to Future-Proofing Your CentOS 7 Estate

For a limited time until October 31, 2024, SUSE is making available the new promotional offer, SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7, to help future-proof and protect the investments of CentOS 7 users. SUSE Liberty Linux is the best alternative for receiving long-term product updates for customers looking to ensure continuity for their workloads based on CentOS. With SUSE Liberty Linux there is no risky migrations or lengthy upgrades needed. You simply change your software channels from CentOS to SUSE, and you get fully compatible maintenance updates and security patches at the application binary interface level with CentOS 7.  This makes June 30, 2024 just another day for your data center.

The SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7 offering is available today at a very attractive price in the SUSE Shop and on the AWS Marketplace. Available until October 31, 2024, you can quickly and easily protect your business.

SUSE has been in the business of creating and supporting enterprise Linux systems for over 30 years. With hundreds of developers, we are one of the key contributors to Linux. Our goal is to ensure our customers can rely on a trusted, long-term partner who understands and is fully dedicated to open source. Since its inception, SUSE Liberty Linux has been a popular choice for customers needing secure and flexible Linux management without the need to migrate.  Today, SUSE Liberty Linux customers include global enterprises across a variety of industries including financial services, telecommunications and automotive. 

The cost of doing nothing

According to the Data Breach Report 2023 by the Ponemon Institute, the average cost of a data breach globally was $4.45 million in 2023.  This is up 2.25% increase from 2022.  In the healthcare industry only, costs jumped to an average of 10.93 million in the United States, These are some staggering statistics.  You can see the cost of doing nothing can be detrimental to your business.

SUSE understands that you are used to a community supported, free OS that was stable and secure. However, with the end of support for CentOS 7, you now face the risks of vulnerabilities that will compromise your operations. For reference, SUSE releases approximately 9 critical security patches per month for our SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. By waiting just a month, what is the cost to your business going to be? And how are you going to meet your regulatory requirements?  The answer is you’re not.

It’s time to take action now!

SUSE is offering CentOS 7 users a lifeline for your business – making it simple for you to keep your current CentOS 7 systems and still get the security patches and updates you need. For just a few dollars a day, you can protect your business saving potentially millions of dollars,

SUSE Linux Liberty Lite for CentOS 7 is available in two packages:

• 100 subscriptions for $2,500
• 1000 subscriptions for $20,000 

And with this offer there is no long term commitment. The subscription is good for one year giving you time to make the right choice for your business. Because, after all, isn’t that what open source is all about? Choice. And with SUSE, Choice Happens.

Find out more the new SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7 offering by going to the SUSE Shop.