FYI, I run CentOS 7 and not 8 because of it's LTO >= 5 'LTFS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_File_System>' (Linear Tape File
System) supported implementation.
I kindly thanks everyone so far for their return, more is always welcome,
Marc ;)

Le mer. 7 juil. 2021 à 17:01, Josh Fisher <jfis...@jaybus.com> a écrit :

> I'm pretty sure Centos 7 isn't EOL until 2024. It was Centos 8 that was
> cut off. AFAIK, Red Hat has made no mention of shortening the Centos 7
> life cycle.
>
> I have been moving Centos 8 installs to Rocky Linux without any
> problems. Bacula RPMs for el8 install and run fine on Rocky. Rocky is a
> RHEL-based distro created in response to Red Hat's decision to abandon
> Centos core. It is led by original CentOS Project founder Gregory
> Kurtzer and already has a large following and major sponsors like Google
> and AWS. It seems to be an exact-fit Centos replacement so far.
>
>
> On 7/7/21 2:25 AM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> > On 07/07/2021 15:18, Marc Ferrand wrote:
> >> If you had a choice, on which system would you install bacula and why ?
> >> These are OSes I'm familiar with in order or preference :
> >> lint Mint (20, fork of Ubuntu/Debian), CentOS 7 (free version of
> >> RHEL), Windows 10 (Desktop), DragonFly BSD (fork of freeBSD), Windows
> >> Server 2012 R2.
> >> Any advice or suggestion is welcome, thanks in advance, Marc.
> >>
> > Well, Solaris 11.4, but I am an ancient BOFH and know my Operating
> > Systems.
> >
> > What ever you go with, go with a recent version - Centos 7 is out of
> > support, so you should get Centos 8.x, frex.  (But Centos is going to
> > be problematic soon, as well.  Sigh.)
> >
> > And Windows is only available as a File Daemon, that means it's a
> > machine to be backed up, not one that manages scheduling or storage,
> > (as in runs the Director or Storage Daemon).
> >
> > Oh, and I would also advise building from source, because that way you
> > get the right thing, not, as is sometimes the case, what someone who
> > is convinced they are much cleverer than everybody else has decided on.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >         Gary    B-)
> >
> >
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