Front-end web servers with different OS

Hi everybody,
is it possible to build a SharePoint farm with front-ends with different OS (W2k8R2 & W2012)?
Thanks in advance,
Sergio Calleja

There should be no issues in having two WFEs running with different operating systems. If MOSS 2007 version can successfully support a mix environment of having two different OS on WFE then why not SharePoint 2013.
But I recommend to set a test environment first and test your mixed setup environment. This will gain you more confidence and sure possibility to implement it on production. Else I see no compatibility issues even if you directly implement the mixed WFE
environment on SharePoint 2013 production.
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