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> For my server I want a boring, stable OS, so I'm definitely not using Streams. Have you considered Ubuntu Server? "Being boring" and "having no vision" are f
by zamalek 6y ago
> For my server I want a boring, stable OS, so I'm definitely not using Streams.
Have you considered Ubuntu Server? "Being boring" and "having no vision" are frequent critiques of Ubuntu, which(as we probably all know) can be the highest possible compliment in some scenarios, like servers. They also have pretty decent LTS.
- leetrout 6y agoDebian has entered the chat
- joana035 6y agoBringing in place upgrades between major versions, something that CentOS never had.
- jnwatson 6y agoDunno. I just spent an hour trying to figure out how to set the DNS server on an interface on Ubuntu Server 20.04. There's no ifconfig, /etc/resolv.conf is out, no nslookup, /etc/network/interfaces is completely out. It is like a completely new OS to me, and I've been hacking on UNIXes for 25 years now.
- severino 6y agoI'm not sure the things you find missing are Ubuntu's fault. For example, while it's true that there is no ifconfig by default in Ubuntu (it's provided by a package called net-tools), one can read this: > In 2009, Red Hat decided to deprecate ifconfig as the default command line network interface management utility, because the “net-tools” package (which provides ifconfig) did not support InfiniBand addresses (commonly used interconnect in high-performance computing applications). So, many of the things that make Ubuntu look like a new OS to you, were actually decisions made by RedHat years ago, and they will also be present in newer RHEL versions.