New server -- which level

[smlunatick]

It has been some time since I set up my company's current CentOS 5 server. It has been stable and steady since 2010. Now, I am in the process of setting new the new replacement server. All hardware is server grade HPE components. Which level of CentOS do I consider? I have used CentOS 6 on another server, but this is over-seas and the server hardware has died.

Do I still use CentOS 6 or do I look at CentOS 7?

Requirements:

File server
Telnet (yes I know -- not secure -- server will not be the firewall or directly accessible off the Internet)
SMB/CIFS
NFS
FTP
rz/sz
MySQL -- vendor software has module to link into the MySQL database

[jlehtone]

Definitely the 7. The 6 is already on its last leg.

See https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#hea ... dde5b75e6d

[TrevorH]

And you needed to be off CentOS 5 nearly 2 years ago...

[lightman47]

and the database server will likely be mariadb (MySQL's "twin brother", so to speak).

[smlunatick]

The CentOS 5 server is a central data server and I know that the OS was retired 2 years ago. A I said, the servers (old and new) are not directly on the Internet.

As of the MySQL database, the vendor's software is developed to use MySQL database directly. I am not sure about the twin software mariadb?

[TrevorH]

Mariadb is a fork of mysql, made by the original authors of mysql when Sun, who bought mysql the company, were bought in turn by Oracle. It's now the default "mysql" on almost all linux distros.