<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Peter Korsten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@severity-one.com" target="_blank">peter@severity-one.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">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><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></span><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></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As someone who was a Debian fanboy for a very long time, I actually think Red Hat are the ones who are advancing the state of Linux in the most meaningful way right now. </div><div><br></div><div>FWIW I deal with a lot of customers/users who've switched from RHEL/CentOS to OEL, and it's not without pain. It's a hell of a lot cheaper, but it has this frustrating uncanny valley aspect compared to RHEL.</div><div><br></div><div>This might be because I'm strongly on the systemd side of the Great Init Wars of 2014/2015...</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><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></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep, and they do this far better than Ubuntu do with LTS releases.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><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.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You should Puppetize it :)</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra">- Peter<br></div></font></span></div>
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