Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your flavor?
To   : DaiTengu
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Jun 06 2024 06:16 pm

-=> DaiTengu wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Da>   Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your
 Da> flavor?
 Da>   By: Gamgee to DaiTengu on Thu Jun 06 2024 11:14 am

 Da>> I run CentOS on my main BBS Box, and it's in desparate need of an
 Da>> upgrade. (CentOS 7 reaches EOL at the end of the month). I'm considering
 Da>> moving it to Gentoo, which is what I've run for over a decade on my home
 Da>> devbox (and also what hosts my SEXPOTS dialup application).

 Ga> Cool, and an interesting mix there.  Quite different.  I was once a fan of
 Ga> the Redhat heritage, even ran Redhat for a short while before it went
 Ga> commercial, and then Mandrake after that (still RPM package management). I
 Ga> guess I've never tried CentOS, but have installed Fedora a few times, but
 Ga> found it too Gnome-focused.  I actually liked Gnome back in the early days
 Ga> with RH and Mandrake, but it's evolved into.... something I don't like any
 Ga> more.  Finally settled on Slackware (w/ XFCE desktop) and been there ever
 Ga> since.

 Da>  Very rarely do I use a GUI on Linux.  All of my linux boxes are
 Da> headless.  I run Windows on my main PC, which hosts an X-server,
 Da> where I can run graphical applications remotely if I need to.

That's cool.  I have several headless things running here too, but my 
daily driver (this ThinkPad laptop) uses the XFCE desktop.  There are 
only two windows computers in the house - my work laptop, and my wife's 
desktop.  :-)



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