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Agreed. I've run the last two LTS releases on our ops servers and it has been a pain in the arse to be honest.

I would like to have a bash at Arch but I can't be bothered to install it and it doesn't have a great security reputation.

I'm not too fussed about up to date packages but a recent Python 3 would be nice.

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Have you considered trying out CentOS on those ops servers? There's plenty of support and documentation online. Package versions do tend to lag a bit, but I believe Python 3 is available (EDIT: It is... http://sopel.chat/python3-centos7.html ).

Yeah we've got a number of CentOS 5 boxes and a CentOS 6 proxy. They are rock solid but terribly out of date.

Python 3 is a compile it yourself on centos I understand.

Interesting, I'm also servicing an ailing CentOS 5 server; un-upgradeable and a pain: currently having to migrate the core application onto a new server, haven't had issues with Ubuntu LTS for server usage in the past so that's what I'm going for but the discussion here makes me want to go with Debian instead next time!

Python 3 is available through a Red Hat supported repo for CentOS 6 and CentOS 7.

https://access.redhat.com/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/...

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