Long term planning (year 2027 onwards)

[olljanat]

⚠️⚠️⚠️ v2.0.2 is potentially last version of BurmillaOS. ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Please, check discussion about potential replacement in here

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It's almost been four years since first Burmilla OS version 1.9.0 was released.
Most important driver for that was allow ex Rancher OS users to update their systems to versions which are still receiving security updates and we have got some new users too.

From GitHub statistics I can see that v2.0.0 ISO file have been downloaded over 600 and v2.0.1 over 500 times.
On top of that many users upgraded from earlier version/Rancher OS which is not visible on those numbers.

What worries me a bit is that Rancher OS v1.5.8 ISO file is still downloaded almost everyday. Docker and Linux kernel versions in it contains known security vulnerabilities so I can only hope that those are non-production systems.

Main components in Burmilla OS 2.0.x versions are:

• Linux kernel 5.10.x which will run of out support in December 2026
• Debian 11 "Bullseye" based console which will run of out support in August 2026

Debian 12 "Bookworm" is using Linux kernel 6.1.x and is supported until June 2028 so most likely that kernel version will be supported also until that same date.

However, before starting implementing new version with those components I would like to confirmation that there is enough of those who are running production workloads on top of Burmilla OS. So please answer to poll below.

[CerberusZ]

This is an amazing project and I really hope you continue supporting it.

[olljanat]

This is an amazing project

True but that does not mean that some other distro cannot be equally good or even better.
Opened discussion to #190 about one alternative.

[benok]

As v2.0.2 is released, I think this vote should be extended.
Only a few beta users voted.

[olljanat]

Keeping mind those schedules mentioned in first message, I think that this voting can be considered to be open somewhere like June 2026 so there is plenty of time also those who do not update that often to see info message.

And people still can report issues or create feature requests and I will check those case by case.

[olljanat]

Because main challenge here is kernel, one alternative which I have been thinking lately would be using kernel binaries from Debian.

However, my first merge request to Debian isn’t looking too promising at the moment so fixing bugs might be tricky if we found any.