[PLUG] Need a supported distro with old glibc

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

We're getting a new payroll/timesheet system and it requires a glibc no 
newer than 2.11.  The company says any distro is fine as long as that 
criterion is met.

As I've looked into it, that's quite old...distributions that included 
glibc 2.11 were released around 2010.  None of these are likely to be 
getting updates anymore.

The exceptions appear to be RHEL 5 / CentOS 5, released in 2014 with 
glibc 2.5.  However, support for those is scheduled to end in March 2017 
(according to wikipedia).

Am I missing something here?  Why would a company have their flagship 
product not installable on an OS with a lifespan longer than 20 months?

I'm waiting for a response from tech support but wondering whether I'm 
missing something--do some distros support more than one glibc version 
at the same time?  Is there some other way around this issue, so I can 
use this product and not have to install again that soon?  The 
alternative is to go pay for a Windows server machine--Server 2008 is 
supported until 2020.


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Greg Helledy
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