I will most certainly second that. Regards Michael Knill
From: Dan Ryson <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 12 March 2026 at 10:25 pm To: AstLinux Users Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] New AstLinux installations are no longer recommended ??? 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<http://voip.ms> (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 <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On Mar 11, 2026, at 2:59 PM, Steve Barlow > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.
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