[Info-vax] CentOS has been effectively killed for production use

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-12-11 19:43:46 +0000, Scott Dorsey said:

> In article <rqud62$9ht$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Snowshoe  <no at spam.please> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a "best" current Linux distribution? Meaning stable, not 
>> loaded with junk or glitz, lots of uses/applications for it. Rather 
>> than start a religious war, how about this: Is there a "Linux for VMS 
>> Users"?
> 
> What you want is NetBSD.

Best? That depends greatly on your particular requirements and goals 
and budget and expectations and experience, as per usual...

Locally, a mix of macOS, iOS, and iPadOS, and BSD, Synology servers, 
with Kali Linux and one or two other Linux distros.

macOS client and the now-deprecated macOS Server were the replacement 
for OpenVMS.

macOS greatly exceeds the capabilities of OpenVMS used as a client. 
This also with iOS and iPadOS for mobile usage.

The now-deprecated macOS server network-service functions are being 
migrated to Synology servers, for what isn't already hosted.

Hosting options include public servers, and environments that can run 
on your own hardware.

For those using CentOS, Rocky Linux, and likely soon some others will 
be available.

Related:
https://www.kali.org (security-related tooling. also see BlackArch.)
https://rockylinux.org
https://www.archlinux.org
https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/intro.html
https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/packages
https://nextcloud.com (fork from owncloud)
https://www.truenas.com


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