-=> DaiTengu wrote to Gamgee <=-
Da> Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops operating on *NIX, what's your
Da> flavor?
Da> By: Gamgee to DaiTengu on Thu Jun 06 2024 11:14 am
Da>> I run CentOS on my main BBS Box, and it's in desparate need of an
Da>> upgrade. (CentOS 7 reaches EOL at the end of the month). I'm considering
Da>> moving it to Gentoo, which is what I've run for over a decade on my home
Da>> devbox (and also what hosts my SEXPOTS dialup application).
Ga> Cool, and an interesting mix there. Quite different. I was once a fan of
Ga> the Redhat heritage, even ran Redhat for a short while before it went
Ga> commercial, and then Mandrake after that (still RPM package management). I
Ga> guess I've never tried CentOS, but have installed Fedora a few times, but
Ga> found it too Gnome-focused. I actually liked Gnome back in the early days
Ga> with RH and Mandrake, but it's evolved into.... something I don't like any
Ga> more. Finally settled on Slackware (w/ XFCE desktop) and been there ever
Ga> since.
Da> Very rarely do I use a GUI on Linux. All of my linux boxes are
Da> headless. I run Windows on my main PC, which hosts an X-server,
Da> where I can run graphical applications remotely if I need to.
That's cool. I have several headless things running here too, but my
daily driver (this ThinkPad laptop) uses the XFCE desktop. There are
only two windows computers in the house - my work laptop, and my wife's
desktop. :-)
... Honk if you love BBSing!
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