On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 5:50 PM Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:56 PM Jose Marques <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 21 May 2020, at 20:45, Larry Linder >> > <[email protected]> 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. >> >> 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.
No need to suspect, it does. The migration to python 3 of newer operating systems makes backporting a great deal of software a nightmare. Similar migrations of the kernel, of the glibc, a of mysql and httpd and Java, all make it far more adventuresome to support the old systems. > This may be getting a bit off-topic, but if your hardware outlives the OS and > you wish to upgrade to 8.x, chances are it can be done by using ELRepo's > packages: > > elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/rhel-80-and-support-for-removed-adapters.html > > Akemi Chances your should do it in virtualization on much newer hardware. This has worked well for me several times, with various UNIX and Linux flavors.
