Hi Liam, > On 14 Dec 2021, at 14:17, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 00:08, Sergii Stoian <stoyan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> For the sake of truth - NextSpace has 3 binary releases (RPMs). Please look >> carefully here https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/releases. >> Last 0.90 release support 3 bistro: CenOS 7, CentOS 8 and Fedora 31. > > Aha! That is excellent. I had missed that. > > I will see if I can install it in a VM.
I’m sure you can. :) > Also it includes install script and installation process pretty much simple > even for non-technical person like you. > > Um. "Not a programmer" != "non-technical person". > > I've been a *nix sysadmin since 1988 and working with Linux since > 1996. I have designed, implemented, built and supported more networks > than I can remember, and systems I built and ran handled $600M of > business per day, every day, for years on end, with the only downtime > being due to external factors such as leased line failure. > > I am, I think, very much a technical person and have been for my whole career. > > The thing is, I know my strengths and weaknesses, and while I *can* > program in 3 or 4 languages, I am not good at it. So I focus on what I > am good at, not what I am bad at. My apologies for my ignorance! I was confused with your reply to Xavier presenting yourself as “technical writer and journalist”. I’m deeply sorry! > >> Some time ago I’ve started NextSpace development on FreeBSD. I’ve >> consciously switched to Linux for 2 reasons: most commercial applications >> are written for Linux (RHEL and Ubuntu) and FreeBSD lacks such powerful >> system-level utilities like UDisks (for automatic removable media >> management). > > I agree regarding FreeBSD. > > Do you think it would be easy, or hard, or near-impossible to get the > NEXTSPACE desktop running on Ubuntu or on Debian? It is absolutely possible. NEXTSPACE is not bound to RedHat-based distros! Moreover here https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/tree/master/Packaging/Debian <https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/tree/master/Packaging/Debian> you can find some work made by Patrick Georgi to create Debian packages. Sergii
