Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:10:43 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeking an extended-support O/S similar to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20130328231043.GA3666@ethic.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20130328212955.GJ42080@manor.msen.com> References: <20130328212955.GJ42080@manor.msen.com>
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:29:55PM -0500, Michael Wayne wrote:
> I'm NOT trying to start a flame war here. I'm trying to find a
> viable solution to a very frustrating, real problem.
>
> It's clear that FreeBSD has absolutely no interest in maintaining
> an extended maintainence release version of the O/S. The high
> resource commitment required to keep up with the current incessant
> FreeBSD release process is beyond quite a number of people. I'm at
> the point of admitting that FreeBSD is simply too much work for us
> to continue to use.
>
> So, I'm wondering if anyone reading the list is aware of a viable
> alternative. I'm seeking a BSD-based O/S that is designed to be
> installed in a server environment and not ever get any feature
> upgrades or require any noticable additional resources, only security
> fixes for the O/S and ports.
>
> While this concept is clearly in total opposition to the philosophy
> of the FreeBSD team, I'm hoping that some other, smaller project
> might exist to fill this need.
>
> Any suggestions?
Many, many [many] years ago I was in favor of a linux+bsd system.
AFAIK, it had some support. you might scout it out.
over a year ago I gave up my FBSD server which ran 7.3 and had
my own DNS and web and mail server side. I tried to upgrade but
there were too many ports that refused to build. nutshell,
someone in the dallas-ft. worth area became my volunteer system
admin. he used centOS-6.3 and fedora-17. the fedora-17 desktop
kept crashing for hardware faults so I finally bought a refurb
h.p. just off lease, put on ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The next version,
13.04 will be out in a few weeks. I now use godaddy.com. they do
my DNS. I use mutt as my mailer. I've got fetchmail working
"reasonably well" [smirk !]
my web server is on the Centos 6.3. mail goes to godaddy...
and when ubuntu's 13.04 long term support is here, I won't have to
fmess with my desktop for THREE years! dunno anything about
centos. I =do= know that while the Berkeley distros are the BEST,
[in my biased opinion], linux is good-enough {tm}
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