<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2015-02-25 10:54 GMT+01:00 ibi sum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ibisum@gmail.com" target="_blank">ibisum@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
</span>Nice work Peter - interesting to hear of your travails. Just curious: why’d you go with CentOS?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because I'm used to it from work -although we seem to be switching to Oracle (Enterprise) Linux now- and because I don't need any bleeding edge technology. This is purely going to be a server, with not even a local display. (Unless I decide to hook up a screen to watch the security cameras, but that's not really straightforward I think.)<br><br></div><div>And I like the way that 'yum' simply installs everything that you need, after you've added a couple of repositories. Because I've had my share of building from source, and I'm getting too old for it. And I like that Red Hat maintain a steady release cycle based on stability rather than features.<br><br></div><div>Meanwhile, I've finished: the machine is happily serving web pages on one network interface, and getting camera images from the other interface. Still a lot needs to be done, like hardening the box, but the start is there.<br></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Peter<br></div></div>