Hello Mike,

On Thu Nov 30 2017 12:07:18, Mike Miller wrote to Nicholas Boel:

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

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

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

I ran Gentoo for upwards of 10 years or so. And I agree. While Synchronet on
Gentoo works great, it was usually Gentoo you had to worry about. Especially
trying to run the ~ unstable architecture. That was a dumb idea that I fought
for years. Once I went with the stable arch it was actually quite a bit better,
although I'm one to constantly upgrade - and that is always a pain in the ass
with Gentoo (ie: it's dependency situation is still something I cringe at to
this day - try to upgrade one thing and it wants to pull in 40 dependencies and
take 2 hours to compile). After taking a look at LFS and realizing that things
like gcc only requires glibc, when Gentoo would want to update your entire
system (obviously to re-compile with the latest gcc, but who needs to do that
for every package?).. I tired of it and went another route until I get the time
(and patience) to do an LFS install. I probably wouldn't use it as my server
OS, but there's never a time to stop learning. ;)

Now I run the BBS on Arch and update whenever I feel like it. Takes no time at
all and everything has been surprisingly stable for a few years now.

Regards,
Nick

... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."
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