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Can I deploy new services on new modern Ubuntu 18.04 or better stay on my lovely Ubuntu 16.04?
Sure, Flussonic is completely compatible with latest Ubuntu release. We don’t recommend running Flussonic on old distros like Ubuntu 14.04, Debian 7, CentOS 6.
The latest releases of popular distros show a great performance and stability, and of course, better support of new hardware.