Remove centOS 7 references

[MikeMcC399]

Subject

Guides

Description

What would you like?

Review and remove references to unsupported CentOS Linux 7.

• https://docs.cypress.io/guides/cloud/test-replay#Troubleshooting
• https://docs.cypress.io/guides/getting-started/installing-cypress#CentOS

Why is this needed?

Open source community support has now ceased:

https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/

CentOS Linux 7 End of Life: June 30, 2024

RHEL 7 reaches End of Maintance on June 30, 2024. After June 30, 2024, there will be no updates published for CentOS Linux 7.

[MikeMcC399]

Possibly references to CentOS should be replaced by references to CentOS Stream? Or perhaps it would be better to focus on Fedora and/or RHEL?

Fedora, CentOS Stream and RHEL are interrelated, see What's Great About CentOS Stream.

[MikeMcC399]

Just as a rough guide to how often each Linux OS is mentioned, here is the result from a search of open issues on https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues:

OS	Number
Linux	172
Ubuntu	146
Debian	36
Arch Linux	14
CentOS	6
Fedora	5
RHEL	4
Alpine Linux	6
Amazon Linux	1
FreeBSD	1
suse	0

[jennifer-shehane]

Yah i haven't seen this centos issue reported in a while. It used to come up a LOT which necessitated adding it to the docs. It's likely ok to remove?

[MikeMcC399]

Submitted the following two PRs for removal:

• Remove obsolete centOS Linux prerequisites #5860 - centOS Stream 9 works out of the box with Cypress, so it's not necessary to specify any additional packages to install
• Remove obsolete centOS troubleshooting #5861 - the troubleshooting steps only reference CentOS 7 and 8, and both these versions are now unsupported

[MikeMcC399]

Resolved