Once you go mini...

[Peter Korsten]

2015-02-25 10:54 GMT+01:00 ibi sum <ibisum at gmail.com>:


> Nice work Peter - interesting to hear of your travails.  Just curious:
> why’d you go with CentOS?
>
>
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.)

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.

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.

- Peter
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