On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 03:45:30PM -0400, Larry Linder wrote:
> 
> We are going to upgrade servers to 6.9 and a workstations to 7.6 and
> hold our breath for the next 4 years.
> 

I agree. el6 was probably the best vintage. el7 much suffers from
systemd bogosity (starts things in the wrong order at boot time,
cannot reliably stop everything at shutdown time, plus all the problems
inbetween boot and shutdown).

>
> So far we have evaluated a lot of Linux varients and most were pretty
> bad.  Nice to tinker with but basically not industrial.
>

Hardware vendors drive it for us. Raspberry Pi type of machines now
come with "YOU MUST INSTALL RASPBIAN" written on them in big letters,
and that is pretty much vanilla Debian, one step away from Ubuntu.
And new people follow these instructions, and everything works
quite okey without too much trouble.

Then we look at the versions of python, php, gcc, etc, and again
Ubuntu seems to be the direction.

So the writing is on the wall, I can see it and I can read it.

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