Subj : helllooo?
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Mike Miller
Date : Thu Nov 30 2017 12:07:19

   Hello Nicholas!

29 Nov 17 14:06, you wrote to me:

 MM>>  RedHat backports a lot of new features into packages, and there
 MM>> are always repositories out there with more "updated" software.
 MM>> At work we use CentOS specifically because it is stable, and well
 MM>> tested. If we need newer versions of software/packages, we'll
 MM>> find a repository for them, or we'll create our own.

 MM>> I don't think I'd want to manage 750+ machines running Gentoo or
 MM>> Arch
 MM>> :)

 NB> Oh no, definitely not. I'd probably go the CentOS route as well if I
 NB> were managing that much. However, for a few machines at home..  ;)


 I run Gentoo on my "dev box", which I use for all my devops-y work. It also 
runs SEXPOTS to forward landline callers to the BBS. (Although one of these 
days I'm going to switch it over to mgetty and ifcico, I just don't have a good 
way to test it, since I can't call myself)

My BBS runs on CentOS 7 mainly because I wanted it on something stable, and I I 
can manage the OS in my sleep (and after long days at work, I often do!). Years 
back I ran Synchronet on Gentoo, and that was ... well, less fun that I wanted 
it to be.


Mike


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