Subj : Re: Linux
To   : Al
From : Avon
Date : Thu Sep 10 2020 12:25:38

On 09 Sep 2020 at 05:16p, Al pondered and said...
 
 Al> Debian and CentOS are both good choices. I am also rather fond of ubuntu
 Al> for a server but whatever choice you make, they are all different but
 Al> more or less the same.. I hope that makes sense.. :)
 Al> 
 Al> After useing slackware for so long I'd have to remember just what makes
 Al> debian or centos different. Mostly package managers. Slackware has a
 Al> very basic package manager.

I've recently installed CentOS for a box running software for my radio
station and have in the past set up a Debian box for the Usenet server. I'm
wanting something that will hopefully play nice with software I have yet to
think of that in the past I would have run under windows.. so not sure if
windows or dos style emulation abilities is worth factoring in, but just
trying to think of gotchas.

I've used Ubuntu before and understand it's based of the Debian branch of the
Linux family tree. 

I'd like to migrate Agency to Linux and run some HUB stuff as well for Fido
etc using BinkD and HPT instead of Fastecho. So it's baby steps for me.

First thing it to build the box, and before I start decide on OS, I have a
machine with an i5 and 8 gigs of ram which I hope/think will be OK. I can see
this box having a number of services running on it down the track and may
look to install Usenet server and migrate things from a separate box that
sits only doing Usenet now.. the goal being to reduce the number of boxes
running in the room etc. :)

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