<div dir="ltr">Ah, I have happy memories of FreeBSD from the early 2000's. I was working with Nik Clayton (this guy: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/FreeBSD-Handbook-2nd-Nik-Clayton/dp/1571763031">https://www.amazon.co.uk/FreeBSD-Handbook-2nd-Nik-Clayton/dp/1571763031</a>) so had a great introduction. <div>Does BSD style still mean building everything out of the ports tree?</div><div>-Lee</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 9:14 PM Rob Swan via Durham <<a href="mailto:durham@mailman.lug.org.uk">durham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Still use Debian, with KDE, on desktop - big fan and have invested much in it which I can't really afford to loose right now.
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Maybe a few months out of touch with mainstream Linux, but I'm just not a big fan of the way the whole Linux world is emerging - it's like everyone wants to have their 'moment' and I see instability and direction changes for political (not technical) reasons,
and I don't like it. Mainy for that reason I'm warming increasingly to BSD (FreeBSD for me, but I'm open to 'Open') - am I a 'defector'?<br>
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<div>I'd also choose Debian o'er almost everything (so make that 2.5 votes) but find that it's a little to slow for some of my production use-cases; the famous Debian stability has hurt me once or twice (example: packaged version of HAproxy & keepalived were
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<div>These days I lean towards Ubuntu Server; still Debian based but moves that little bit quicker. LTS has been great for me. I'm not quite sold on netplan though.</div>
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<div>On the RedHat/Fedora/CentOS side of the house - I haven't used them much in production; I think this goes way back to a bad experience of dependency hell on RedHat 6.0 (that's about twenty years ago kids ;) Although I did run CentOS7 on a RPi3; worked
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<div>Debian sid with Cinnamon for my laptop, and Debian <span style="color:rgb(84,84,84);font-family:arial,sans-serif">stretch for work servers when I can. A lot of my work servers are running RHEL, and CentOS or Fedora are in my favourites list.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(84,84,84);font-family:arial,sans-serif">I'm Installing Debian </span><span style="color:rgb(84,84,84);font-family:arial,sans-serif">stretch on a Pentium 4 with 256mb ram right now, for a new home server! I've picked up so many free
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<div>I ask, as I have my choice, but I do want to canvas opinion in case there's something I've missed ;)</div>
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