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   
      
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