Well I will move most of my stuff to Rocky, I have it running there for almost a year and love it.
Remo > On Jan 20, 2022, at 09:21, Diego Piñon Conde <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's sad (hey! I love Centos too), but let me transcript an Eric's email from > Dec 10 2020 to answer "why move away from centos" > > Diego > > -------- Mensaje reenviado -------- > > Asunto: Re: [qmailtoaster] Future of qmailtoaster on CentOS? > Fecha: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:35:01 -0700 > De: Eric Broch <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> > Responder a: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Para: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > 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. > > > El 20/1/2022 a las 13:57, Janno Sannik escribió: >> it's probably discussed before, but why it moved away from centos to >> Springdale or Rocky? >> >> I also need to make a fresh install. So that is why I'm curious. >> >> >> For server stuff - always would go for ECC if you can and it's reasonably >> busy machine. It doesn't have to cost arm and a leg since there is >> aftermarket hw to snatch with reasonable prices. It's really complicated to >> debug a server with memory problems because it might not crash the whole OS, >> just crashing processes at random. >> >> As Linus Torvalds has said - we never know how many bad kernel dumps have >> been submitted and there is nothing wrong with the code, just bad memory in >> the system. >> >> Also if failure occures, you will know where and what dimm is broken. And if >> you are lucky it get's corrected by ECC on the fly. >> >> >> Janno >> >> On 20.01.2022 18:36, Angus McIntyre wrote: >>> My impression is that Rocky is more widely supported than Springdale by >>> VM providers like Digital Ocean and Linode. But I think they also allow >>> you to provide your own images for initializing VMs, so maybe that's not >>> an obstacle so much as an extra step. >>> >>> Angus >>> >>> >>> >>> Remo wrote on 1/20/22 10:46 AM: >>>> I like rocky Linux. >>>> >>>> Remo >>>>> Il giorno 20 gen 2022, alle ore 03:06, Andreas Galatis <[email protected]> >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> ha scritto: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I use the qmail-toaster since many years and are very glad with it. The >>>>> system is very stable, secure and configurable with the features we need. >>>>> >>>>> I need to install a new Server for qmail and migrate the installation >>>>> from CentOS7. >>>>> >>>>> What is the preferred OS, (Rocky or Springdale) >>>>> >>>>> Is there a big advantage of ECC-Ram (with XEON) over Standard Ram (with >>>>> Core7)? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance >>>>> >>>>> Iodok >>>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For > additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
