Hi Eric, I am not sure what this thread is about, but I heard FreeBSD, have you checked https://www.xfiles.dk/guide-on-how-to-install-qmail-on-freebsd/? I once used that and it did work. And the guy is also my friend.
-- -- Best Regards Muhammad Tahnan Al Anas On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:24 PM Eric Broch <[email protected]> wrote: > And, some humor... > > https://centos.rip > > > On 12/11/2020 6:52 AM, Eric Broch wrote: > > This looks like good news: https://github.com/rocky-linux > > On another note: IBM bought/acquired > <https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future> > Red Hat. > > > On 12/10/2020 8:35 AM, Eric Broch wrote: > > > *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 <http://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]> > <[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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
