Technical strategy and performance

[Hal Murray]

jason at azze.org said:
> This is why I try to make noise when things are broken on RHEL/CentOS 6.x. I
> don't see a builder for that OS on buildbot.ntpsec.org. The Red Hat
> Enterprise family (RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux)
> and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server are where we boring, conservative sysadmins
> like to live. There are a lot of us who haven't moved off of RHEL 6
> (supported through 2020) for critical infrastructure because RHEL 7 went
> systemd on us. 

Is CentOS reasonable coverage for the Red Hat side?  What versions do we need?

Is Scientific Linux enough different that it's worth running it too?  If so, 
what versions?

Is openSUSE reasonable coverage for SUSE?  If so, what versions do we need?

Is there a free version of Oracle?


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