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Categories 01. General/Multiple Areas
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 19, 2021

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Support More Recent Operating Systems

In the RHEL-compatible area, RHEL7 and CentOS7 are currently supported. Both are a bit outdated and I would not like to set them up for new deployments.

RHEL8 is not yet officially supported and CentOS8 is no longer an option as the distro has changed direction to being an upstream build of RHEL8. Rocky Linux could be a good alternative, we have had very good experiences with it.


We don't need to talk about SLES 12, that's so old....


And for Windows Server (I would never use that, but many companies do), 2016 is the last supported version. 2019 has been around for 3 years, 2022 is coming this fall.


So please support more recent operating systems, preferably free ones too!


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    Rene Schimmer
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    |     Nov 3, 2022

    Hi Daniel,
    the system requirements page will be updated shortly, somehow the update did not go out properly. Sorry for the confusion, but Windows 2019 for example is supported with both C7 and C8.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 2, 2022

    Hi Rene,

    you changed this to shipped, but the system requirements for Connections 8 still show Windows Server 2016 and CentOS 7. Both are soon EOS. The only update I can see is RHEL 8.6. So what about Rocky 8.6 or Alma 8.6? What about new Suse? What about Windows Server 2022 (Core?)? I would be very happy to receive an answer.

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 14, 2021

    As everyone is talking about RockyLinux and you get that inside of Azure, GCP, AWS and so on, I tried running a testing environment of Connections with Rocky 8.5.

    I had absolutely no issues, despite of the old DB2 11.1 Database (which is EOL in 2022). Db2 11.5 works fine. Kubernetes works too, of course.

    So there are surely some tests to do and maybe deliver an updated DB2, but then nothing should speak against Rocky.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 17, 2021

    This should be done quickly please. Planning to implement is too slow.

    Now RHEL, Rocky linux and other derivates have reach 8.5 , open sluse leap 15.3 has binary parity with SLES so it could be a really good alternative too. Please take care of this

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 12, 2021

    IDK about Windows but regarding Linux, I absolutely agree. Rocky Linux seems to be a good alternative to CentOS. It's also developed by the original CentOS founder. It's not so much time for the EOL of CentOS 7 if we think about the facts that HCL needs time for testing and we admins also to plan the upgrade, test and so on. Especially on larger environments this is not done in a few weeks.

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