OT: what is a good simple Linux to use for for linux 5.0.14D4

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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:26:24AM -0400, Walter D Vaughan Jr thus spoke:
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> > From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
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> > Don't go with CentOS 7
> [Walter D Vaughan Jr] 
> 
> You didn't even mention it uses "systemd". AFAIK, the end of the world is in
> sight. Might be time to start listening to the tin-foil hat crowd. At least
> it makes it very easy now for the NSA to take over your server without you
> knowing. And, you have a server OS optimized to run on a laptop. Win Win for
> all!

Yeah, I don't know of anyone besides the systemd crowd who are fans of
systemd.  Brian White can write whole essays on it.  I'm personally against
it.  I haven't tested CentOS 7 yet in-house.  I planned to toss it on
VMWare here and do so, and I'm sure I would have noticed then.  I didn't
know this would be RH's release for adopting that aberration from the
seventh circle of Hell.

Here's the reality, though...  Everyone is going to adopt it.  SuSE did
a while back, RH (and thus CentOS) are now.  Adapt or perish, same as
always.  We will have no choice unless some -major- distribution refuses to
adopt it, and I don't see that happening.  I don't count Debian because of
their long history of security issues and being behind the ball.  They're
allegedly better these days, but they have a history you can't ignore.
I don't count Ubuntu because I don't consider them enterprise-level, I
consider them enthusiast-level.

Adapt or perish, it is.

mark->
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