This looks like good news: https://github.com/rocky-linux
On another note: IBM bought/acquired
<https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future>
Red Hat.
On 12/10/2020 8:35 AM, Eric Broch wrote:
/Fellow QMT enthusiasts:
/
/I became concerned about the future of CentOS a week or so ago
///(not a premonition just my natural paranoia) /prior to their
announcement two days back and visited centos.org to relieve my fears.
I was confident at that point that having gotten QMT/CentOS 8 ready I
was good to go for ~10 years. My confidence MAY have been hasty. I'm
still not sure what drawbacks 'stream' is going to bring, if any, and
like Angus am apprehensive. It's supposed to be an intermediate
environment between Fedora and RHEL. In my opinion, to release CentOS
8 and then move it from downstream to upstream after people have
already migrated is short-sighted at the very least, and its name
Community Enterprise OS (8) is now a misnomer. Living in somewhat of a
cocoon, I was completely unaware that RH "joined" CentOS. I've heard
some say that we've been freeloading off CentOS for years and now it's
time to pay up. Never mind that a free kernel is used and we actually
test the software and report bugs. That said, I have REALLY enjoyed
using CentOS since the beginning.
/
/That said, having a look at the old spec files from *-toaster
designation days when we built the QMT for specific platforms, Fedora,
was among them along with Suse, Mandrake, so, at the beginning QMT was
used in a non-Enterprise environment. Anyway...
/
/Personally, I'm interested in both Debian and FreeBSD and would like
to go back halfway to multi-platform builds while keeping the current
QMT/CentOS 8 offering. This would mitigate the problems, if there are
any, we are seeing now (hopefully). I guess it just depends on when
(or if) the mega-corps buy up all of the Linux distributions and hang
us all out to dry. Given the Felliniesque nature of the world today
nothing would surprise me anymore.
/
/One advantage of having a ports like mail server is the ability, if
one is inclined to dig a little beyond binary installs, to make
changes on the fly without having to wait for packages from the repo./
/I've tried to install FreeBSD, although somewhat half-heartedly, on
Proxmox serveral times with no success. If anyone has any hints I'm
all ears...just my 2 cents./
/So, if anyone is working on installing QMT on another platform please
keep us apprised of your successes. If you feel like writing it up,
I'll post it to the web site.
/
/I'll be looking into converting to *.deb packages (like rpm's, binary
ease of install) in some way (I tried using alien...on the website)
which can be used on Ubuntu and Debian Linux. Back to work for me...
/
/Eric B.
/
On 12/9/2020 7:31 PM, Tony White wrote:
Hi all,
Anyone interested in BSD either Free or Open?
I am starting to work on building a FreeBSD version
of this for myself. Would like to know if anyone
else is interested.
best wishes
Tony White
On 10/12/20 6:49 am, Unai Rodriguez wrote:
Debian!
-- unai
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, at 8:20 PM, Boheme wrote:
I’ve been meaning to learn to compile all the source for Ubuntu for a
while. This may be the kick in the pants I needed.
-Sent from my Pip-Boy 3000
On 10/12/2020, at 12:50 AM, Angus McIntyre <an...@pobox.com> wrote:
Does anyone have any thoughts on the likely future of
qmailtoaster given the new plans for CentOS?
(See https://centos.org/distro-faq/ for more details)
I'd never actually heard of CentOS Stream before today, but having
just painfully built a working toaster on top of CentOS 8, I'm a
little apprehensive about the impact of the proposed changes.
Comments?
Angus
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