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On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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And that skeleton of a system becomes easier to test.
I don't need to test ~80 - 100 different in-house applications on whatever many different versions of java, python, .net and so on.
I rather end up with 12 different classes of systems. My integration tests on a buildserver can check these thoroughly every night against multiple versions of the OS. And if the integration tests are green, I can be 95 - 99% sure things will work right. The dev and testing environments will figure out the rest if something wonky is going on with docker and new kernels.