Subj : Re: Linux
To   : Vk3jed
From : Avon
Date : Thu Sep 10 2020 19:45:52

On 10 Sep 2020 at 05:20p, Vk3jed pondered and said...
 
 Vk> Familiarity is one good reason to choose a distro, if there's no other
 Vk> considerations.

Only the hope that what I end up wanting to run on it (and can't yet foresee
what all those 'things' will be) will indeed run.

 Vk> CentOS is a repackaged Red Hat Enterprise Linux minus the support
 Vk> contracts. It is a very solid distro, but you will have to get used to a
 Vk> slightly different way of doing some things.  But definitely a solid
 Vk> option.

Yeah so far the other box I built has been smooth but to be fair I only went
that way because the vendor of the software I use has a turnkey installer for
it built for that flavour of Linux. 

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