Brian May via luv-main writes:
> Piers Rowan via luv-main writes:
>
>> I'm sure we have all used a few distros in the past (like many!).
>>
>> So CentOS is going away where to next?
> It really depends on your use case... For servers I prefer a stable that
> I don't have to keep updating. For
On Monday, 19 December 2022 08:59:36 AEDT Brian May via luv-main wrote:
> It really depends on your use case... For servers I prefer a stable that
> I don't have to keep updating. For desktops, more likely to need newer
> stuff. Especially for drivers, etc. which may not always work correctly
>
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 05:52:46PM +1000, Piers Rowan wrote:
> I'm sure we have all used a few distros in the past (like many!).
>
> So CentOS is going away where to next?
I forgot to mention this in my last post, but Rocky Linux is where a lot of
the Centos devs and users went.
On 19/12/22 08:59, Brian May via luv-main wrote:
I am currently using Debian + flatpak (where possible) to install apps
that I really want to keep up to date or not available in Debian.
I searched on the Web, but I couldn't find an easy way to separate
free/open-source apps from non-free
On 18/12/22 18:52, Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote:
So CentOS is going away where to next?
CentOS Stream, perhaps? It's reputed to be only slightly ahead of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux.
My main concern about CentOS and similar distributions, though, is that
there reportedly isn't a supported,
On 18/12/22 17:52, Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote:
I'm sure we have all used a few distros in the past (like many!).
So CentOS is going away where to next?
https://www.opensuse.org/
I haven't used this one since I used Mandrake. It's RPM compatible but
does anyone have some insights into
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 08:59:36AM +1100, Brian May via luv-main wrote:
> Piers Rowan via luv-main writes:
>
> > I'm sure we have all used a few distros in the past (like many!).
> >
> > So CentOS is going away where to next?
> >
...
> I have been hearing good things about NixOS. My
RHEL is free for dev and "small" prod workloads of up to 16 servers if you
want to stick with more or less centos experience.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/
Disclaimer: I work for IBM which is Redhat's parent company
I've found AlmaLinux to be a solid, stable and free upgrade from CentOS
7, maintaining RHEL binary compatibility ... had no issues with it as yet.
https://almalinux.org/
On 19/12/2022 4:21 pm, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 09:29:51PM +1100, Les Kitchen wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 09:29:51PM +1100, Les Kitchen wrote:
> And if there's some package you really need a recent version of, sometimes
> you can just do a one-off install.
Or look in https://backports.debian.org/ - the latest version (or at least, a
very recent version) may have already been
Piers Rowan via luv-main writes:
> I'm sure we have all used a few distros in the past (like many!).
>
> So CentOS is going away where to next?
>
> My main use case is LAMP servers (I us Ubuntu as my Desktop). Is Debain
> the best candidate or does stable lag to far behind? Is RHEL the only
>
Hi Piers,
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022, at 18:52, Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote:
> I'm sure we have all used a few distros in the past (like many!).
>
> So CentOS is going away where to next?
>
> My main use case is LAMP servers (I us Ubuntu as my Desktop). Is Debain
> the best candidate or does stable
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