/Fellow QMT enthusiasts:
/
/I became concerned about the future of CentOS a week or so ago ///(not
a premonition just my natural paranoia) /prior to their announcement two
days back and visited centos.org to relieve my fears. I was confident at
that point that having gotten QMT/CentOS 8 ready I was good to go for
~10 years. My confidence MAY have been hasty. I'm still not sure what
drawbacks 'stream' is going to bring, if any, and like Angus am
apprehensive. It's supposed to be an intermediate environment between
Fedora and RHEL. In my opinion, to release CentOS 8 and then move it
from downstream to upstream after people have already migrated is
short-sighted at the very least, and its name Community Enterprise OS
(8) is now a misnomer. Living in somewhat of a cocoon, I was completely
unaware that RH "joined" CentOS. I've heard some say that we've been
freeloading off CentOS for years and now it's time to pay up. Never mind
that a free kernel is used and we actually test the software and report
bugs. That said, I have REALLY enjoyed using CentOS since the beginning.
/
/That said, having a look at the old spec files from *-toaster
designation days when we built the QMT for specific platforms, Fedora,
was among them along with Suse, Mandrake, so, at the beginning QMT was
used in a non-Enterprise environment. Anyway...
/
/Personally, I'm interested in both Debian and FreeBSD and would like to
go back halfway to multi-platform builds while keeping the current
QMT/CentOS 8 offering. This would mitigate the problems, if there are
any, we are seeing now (hopefully). I guess it just depends on when (or
if) the mega-corps buy up all of the Linux distributions and hang us all
out to dry. Given the Felliniesque nature of the world today nothing
would surprise me anymore.
/
/One advantage of having a ports like mail server is the ability, if one
is inclined to dig a little beyond binary installs, to make changes on
the fly without having to wait for packages from the repo./
/I've tried to install FreeBSD, although somewhat half-heartedly, on
Proxmox serveral times with no success. If anyone has any hints I'm all
ears...just my 2 cents./
/So, if anyone is working on installing QMT on another platform please
keep us apprised of your successes. If you feel like writing it up, I'll
post it to the web site.
/
/I'll be looking into converting to *.deb packages (like rpm's, binary
ease of install) in some way (I tried using alien...on the website)
which can be used on Ubuntu and Debian Linux. Back to work for me...
/
/Eric B.
/
On 12/9/2020 7:31 PM, Tony White wrote:
Hi all,
Anyone interested in BSD either Free or Open?
I am starting to work on building a FreeBSD version
of this for myself. Would like to know if anyone
else is interested.
best wishes
Tony White
On 10/12/20 6:49 am, Unai Rodriguez wrote:
Debian!
-- unai
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, at 8:20 PM, Boheme wrote:
I’ve been meaning to learn to compile all the source for Ubuntu for a
while. This may be the kick in the pants I needed.
-Sent from my Pip-Boy 3000
On 10/12/2020, at 12:50 AM, Angus McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
Does anyone have any thoughts on the likely future of qmailtoaster
given the new plans for CentOS?
(See https://centos.org/distro-faq/ for more details)
I'd never actually heard of CentOS Stream before today, but having
just painfully built a working toaster on top of CentOS 8, I'm a
little apprehensive about the impact of the proposed changes.
Comments?
Angus
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