> On 21 May 2020, at 20:45, Larry Linder <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> We are going to upgrade servers to 6.9 and a workstations to 7.6 and
> hold our breath for the next 4 years.

6.10 and 7.8 are out. I suspect the 6.* is going to cause real problems from the PoV of TLS versions. We have a few Dell servers with embedded RAID hardware not supported by 8.x so they will likely remain on 7.* for their lifetime. We deploy SL7, Centos 7/8, and Fedora but I suspect the current crisis is going to focus our minds on reducing that variety.

> Our current leap back is to BSD !!!

FreeBSD? That's on a 6 month update cycle now. I think support is n+1. When out of support the package system starts to break really soon. We use FreeBSD 12 for our storage servers. Now that FreeBSD is using ZFS on Linux upstream I'm wondering about just using Linux.

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