No probs, and be free to derail and hijack as much as you want threads
started by me. I am a child of Usenet/Sfnet in my Internet life, hence I am
not bothered at all who talks what and where. In Sfnet someone started a
topic, some people maybe talked about the topic but usually very quicly
several people were talking OT as much as they wanted. If someone would had
said "this is my thread" people would had laughed so hard that several of
them could had died of heart attack.
As an update by my side I can tell that I at first installed Ubuntu LTS to
the school because I noticed Toutatis still have packages named *ubuntu*,
which would had meant that every single package would had been upgraded at
some point. I however very quicly became pissed of Ubuntu as each time I
booted the machine I saw some "manage this server in "landscape.ubuntu.com"
login greeter. The final thing pissing me off was that I had to write a
custom init script, and I read that Ubuntu uses Upstart. The benefits of
Upstart were mainly for desktop machines, IMHO, so I thought fuck this shit
gimme System V init or GTFO.
As a result I installed stable Debian and was very happy. Seriously, for
important servers I rather play it as safe as I can. One failure on the
server is simply too much, if it can be avoidable with different OS. So,
goodbye support for 5 years and hello maximum performance with Free Software.
I think Red Hat Enterprise or Cent OS could be alternatives for Debian, but
since I am so much on the .deb camp in general I don't have to make things
more difficult by considering them. Debian GNU/Linux should be 100% free
without non-free and contrib repositories, which are not enabled by default.
Anyway, in my opinion Parabola GNU/Linux people have done the best job. They
are not saying "it is upstream bug lol no can do" but have done impressive
job in making Parabola better than the distro it is based on. I have used
Parabola as a server in my home, and it worked like a charm. I would not use
Parabola for anything serious though because it is rolling releases. For
serious servers things are best to not change untill they must change.
