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by yjftsjthsd-h 2023 days ago
> With CentOS, deprecation has a long tail, so whatever works on 8.0 is likely to work in 7.0 (going back to 2012) and maybe even 6.5.

And the reverse is even more true: If your app worked on RHEL 5, you can probably blindly copy it to an EL 7 box and it will just work (ask me how I know;]), and probably it would for EL 8, too.