[Durham] Distro choice, servers/cloud

[Lucky Lee]

Ah, I have happy memories of FreeBSD from the early 2000's.  I was working
with Nik Clayton (this guy:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/FreeBSD-Handbook-2nd-Nik-Clayton/dp/1571763031) so
had a great introduction.
Does BSD style still mean building everything out of the ports tree?
-Lee

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 9:14 PM Rob Swan via Durham <
durham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Ex Debian fan here ;)
>
> 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.
>
> 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'?
>
> So put me down as Free BSD, just to mix things up :P
>
> Rob
>
> On 01/05/2019 20:58, Lucky Lee via Durham wrote:
>
> Two votes for Debian and some Fedora.
>
> 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 a long way behind the latest and had a
> bug that was a blocker; compiled from source in the end which obviously
> becomes a patching nightmare).
>
> 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.
>
> 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 surprisingly well.
>
> -Lee
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:54 PM Alexis Solanas via Durham <
> durham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Fedora user here since Fedora Core 1
>> Desktop is i3
>>
>> On Wed, 1 May 2019, 20:43 Edmund Fisher via Durham, <
>> durham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Debian fanboy here :)
>>>
>>> Debian sid with Cinnamon for my laptop, and Debian 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.
>>>
>>> I'm Installing Debian stretch on a Pentium 4 with 256mb ram right now,
>>> for a new home server! I've picked up so many free desktops over the past
>>> week, and I have free electric :p
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Edmund Fisher
>>> PGP Key: https://edmundf.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:38 PM Lucky Lee via Durham <
>>> durham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not that I have any interest in starting a 'holy OS war', but, what is
>>>> your preferred server/cloud distro, and why?
>>>>
>>>> I ask, as I have my choice, but I do want to canvas opinion in case
>>>> there's something I've missed ;)
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> -Lee
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