All,
This seems like a good time for me to express thanks to Lonnie and all
the AstLinux developers for their decades of hard work,
professionalism, and dedication. Your efforts are greatly
appreciated.
Dan
On Wednesday, 11-03-2026 at 17:58 David Kerr wrote:
I recently (within last month) bought myself a Unifi Cloud Gateway
Fiber... it replaced my Astlinux as the household gateway. I made
this switch with a heavy heart, I've been a huge supporter of
Astlinux, I have used it since 2008, I've contributed fixes and
enhancements to it, I maintain my own fork for my personal use, it has
provided me hours of enjoyment (yes, I love coding).
But... as I get older and consider the future I felt the time had
come to switch to a commercial solution. For years there was no
commercial solution that came close to the flexibility that Astlinux
offered, but that is no longer the case. Unifi gateway is very
powerful and can do everything I was using Astlinux for and more.
There are others, I picked Unifi because I already use their WiFi AP's
and switches.
There are some things that I was running on Astlinux that I now run in
separate servers (proxmox containers), e.g. web server. And I have
"simplified" my VoIP by directly registering my phones with voip.ms
[1] (I am considering running Unifi Talk... but you need at least one
of their proprietary phones before you can add other generics).
Lonnie has been carrying the weight of keeping Astlinux up-to-date for
years. And I am sure this was hard for him. But I suspect his
rationale was very similar to mine.
David.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 4:10 PM Lonnie Abelbeck
* wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2026, at 2:59 PM, Steve Barlow wrote:
>
> Please have a look here....
>
> https://www.astlinux-project.org/about.html
>
> It is saying:
>
> AstLinux Now:
> After over 21 years (2026-03-01), AstLinux is considered deprecated.
New AstLinux installations are no longer recommended.
> Comments please...
> Steve
Not sure what is unclear.
Updating existing installations is encouraged, but consider other
solutions when starting "new".
Lonnie
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