Likewise, though when I tried a couple of weeks ago my first attempt was on a CentOS 6 VM; now that was painful, little in the way of distro supplied packages,

Likewise, though when I tried a couple of weeks ago my first attempt was on a CentOS 6 VM; now that was painful, little in the way of distro supplied packages, having to workaround outdated dependencies, etc. CentOS 7 in comparison was much easier, and then, the easiest: upgrading my laptop to Fedora 24 -- tile server basically comes for free, sigh ;-)