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@nixCraft yeah, pretty much. kind of a shame, i've never managed to wrap my head around the .deb / apt packaging system anywhere nearly as well as i understand RPM. building a .deb package from source might be easy if you grok it, but i don't, and it looks like greek hieroglyphics to me. even searching for and installing them from the CLI is strange magic. does anyone have a suitable "wrangling .deb packages for dummies" e-book available, like used to exist for RPM? @lynxcat @nixCraft I've been building binary packages lately, but this is a nice walkthrough of one of the ways:  @nixCraft NASA used Debian on the International Space station in '13 when SVN wrote this article. 100% they still do. You won't see RHEL mentioned. π @josephdickson @nixCraft I believe that NASA does use RHEL as well as Debian. And VxWorks. And they use a lot of Macs and Windows. Probably they use everything.  @simonbp @nixCraft the article mentioned Scientific Linux. I bet they used both. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Linux @TechieJamie @nixCraft I would guess build from centos and mirror redhat patches as much as they can. @nixCraft Iβve been been using Debian in enterprise for years now. Donβt mind me as I smugly declare that I saw the writing on Red Hatβs wall for years now. Debian has proven a very solid replacement for me.   @nixCraft if I recall correctly (and I might not be) Limelight Networks would say "always has been"  @nixCraft The real question is why wasn't Debian considered an "enterprise" distro all along? @nixCraft  |
@nixCraft - Red Hat seems intent on becoming even more irrelevant. Go Rocky. -- And we will always find a way forward. Even without them. (I could be talking about Reddit here too.)