| ▲ | stackskipton an hour ago | |
Sure, but if you are such a situation, then paying for Operating System is probably cheaper than paying engineering time to fix it. Also, most stuff these days could probably be shoved into a container and thus extremely distro/version agnostic. All applications need maintenance. Either you do it at application level to keep on top of its dependencies or you do it at OS/3rd party level. Either way, someone wants to get paid. | ||
| ▲ | esseph an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> Sure, but if you are such a situation, then paying for Operating System is probably cheaper than paying engineering time to fix it. Yes, that is the entire point of what I said. > most stuff these days could probably be shoved into a container and thus extremely distro/version agnostic It depends on if it's an in-house app or managed and built by a 3rd party (may void contract). Also depends on the risk of life/monetary loss if something goes sideways. | ||