Thank you for the information. I'll duplicate a couple of virtuals, do
the upgrade and see what happens.
Again, thank you for the information.
On 12/21/2015 08:12 AM, Linux O'Beardly wrote:
> 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@???
> <mailto:rodo@dailydata.net>> 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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