Rod,

While many here would probably say it's not a good idea to run servers on
Devuan until a production release, I am already running it on a number of
servers. I have a NAS, a CS 1.6 gaming server, and a couple of application
servers all running Devuan without issue. Additionally, I'm running all of
my desktops, including my Kodi server, on Devuan. I haven't had any out of
the ordinary issues thus far. I would definitely give it the thumbs up for
servers as long as you are doing your due diligence in the SDLC. I started
all of my servers running Devuan in my development environment, and then
promoted them up though Testing, QA, and then finally Prod. I would
recommend that you definitely do a proper migration following SDLC and have
a contingency, just as you would with any major migration. Best of luck.

Linux O'Beardly
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 6:29 PM, R. W. Rodolico <rodo@???> wrote:

> I've been lurking for a while, and I'm getting close to a decision
> point. I have been using Debian for well over a decade, but Jessie
> appears to be too unstable. The two machines I installed it on had
> issues bad enough that I reverted to Wheezy (reformat/reinstall).
>
> Thing is, I mainly deal in servers. I really don't care that much what
> workstation OS I use; Mac, Windows, Linux; so long as I can ssh to my
> servers that is all I care about.
>
> As was mentioned earlier, PHP can not be upgraded on Wheezy, so I have
> been looking around for a replacement. I'm currently playing with
> FreeBSD, and keeping an eye on Devuan.
>
> Is Devuan mature enough to use on a server yet? Most of the work I see
> is on what I consider workstation stuff; netman, etc... Does that mean
> the server stuff is pretty stable already?
>
> This is my livelyhood, so I'm definitely not wanting to jump into
> anything. Almost lost a customer over the instability of Jessie.
>
> Bottom line is, as a server (no GUI, no netman, no games, no Libre, just
> a basic OS that allows me to install Apache/Postfix/MariaDB), do you
> feel Devuan is ready for some serious consideration yet, or should I
> wait another few months. Oh, we are heavily into virtualization using
> Xen also.
>
> BTW, while I can not contribute the skills necessary at this point, my
> offer of a mirror still stands, whenever that becomes needed. Resources
> I have, but my programming skills are so far out of date I'd be a
> liability. But, resources I would be happy to share when/if you need them.
>
> Rod
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