Hello Nicholas!   
      
   01 Dec 17 10:40, you wrote to me:   
      
    NB> Hello Mike,   
      
    NB> 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   
    MM>> work. It also runs SEXPOTS to forward landline callers to the   
    MM>> BBS. (Although one of these days I'm going to switch it over to   
    MM>> mgetty and ifcico, I just don't have a good way to test it, since   
    MM>> 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   
    MM>> days at work, I often do!). Years back I ran Synchronet on   
    MM>> Gentoo, and that was ... well, less fun that I wanted it to be.   
      
    NB> I ran Gentoo for upwards of 10 years or so. And I agree. While   
    NB> Synchronet on Gentoo works great, it was usually Gentoo you had to   
    NB> worry about. Especially trying to run the ~ unstable architecture.   
    NB> That was a dumb idea that I fought for years. Once I went with the   
    NB> stable arch it was actually quite a bit better, although I'm one to   
    NB> constantly upgrade - and that is always a pain in the ass with Gentoo   
    NB> (ie: it's dependency situation is still something I cringe at to this   
    NB> day - try to upgrade one thing and it wants to pull in 40 dependencies   
    NB> and take 2 hours to compile). After taking a look at LFS and realizing   
    NB> that things like gcc only requires glibc, when Gentoo would want to   
    NB> update your entire system (obviously to re-compile with the latest   
    NB> gcc, but who needs to do that for every package?).. I tired of it and   
    NB> went another route until I get the time (and patience) to do an LFS   
    NB> install. I probably wouldn't use it as my server OS, but there's never   
    NB> a time to stop learning. ;)   
      
    I'm running into one of those stupid emerge issues right now on my devbox.   
   too many things unmasked and it doesn't want to update properly.  Meanwhile I   
   can just "yum -y update" on my BBS machine without worrying that it's going to   
   break.   
      
    "You built a new computer, throw Gentoo on the old one" I said. "It's got a   
   fast CPU, Gentoo will work great!" I insisted. "You'll keep it up to date,   
   just emerge once every few days or so!" I thought.   
      
   Yeah...   
      
      
      
    NB> Now I run the BBS on Arch and update whenever I feel like it. Takes no   
    NB> time at all and everything has been surprisingly stable for a few   
    NB> years now.   
      
    I tried to toss Arch on my laptop at one point, and I just couldn't get it to   
   run right. It booted, but X wouldn't come up, and I didn't want to do   
   Gentoo-levels of tinkering with it to make it work, so I gave up.  I think I'm   
   too old to learn a new distro...   
      
      
   Mike   
      
      
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