Ubuntu Install / Weekend warrior project

[Fairlight]

Let me how how -you- 'enjoy' Debian.  I at least know your sensibilities
when it comes to *nix engineering, so your opinion is a valid benchmark for
me, as opposed to someone with whom I've never really discussed it for more
than 20 minutes or a few emails.

If Debian is a prereq for R-Pi, forget it, I'm out.  And I was even
considering it a few days ago.  This assumes the earlier assertion someone
made that the really weird stuff was done by Debian, not Ubuntu, is
actually valid, of course.  I'll have to take someone's word for that.  In
the time it would take to explore it for myself on personal time, I could
work on a song, play a game, or do something else more enjoyable...even
creating mobile apps, which I've wanted to do for years.  Too many hobbies,
not enough lifetime.

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On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 03:36:11PM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2018, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> ...
> >I -used- to agree with Bill Campbell that SuSE -was- the best-engineered
> >distro out there.  In the SuSE 9 Pro era, this was certainly the case.
> >SuSE really went downhill, though.
> 
> SuSE got weird shortly after SuSE 9 Pro, the only non-CentOS
> version we're using now, exclusively in VMware VMs running SCO
> COFF binaries of software I developed under SCO OpenServer.
> 
> I'm about to get into Debian related Linux as I get into
> RaspBerry PI where I want to use it to build tiny routers and
> firewall appliances.  These will need minimal things like a
> simple web server to support XMLRPC system calls from Python
> programs, largely to remotely administer iptables from other
> Linux boxes.  Beyond that the most import thing I need is a
> decent Python.
> 
> I will be starting with a box to go between our 192.136.111.0/24
> CIDR block and our internal LAN provinding NAT for the LAN and
> OpenVPN access from the outside world.  This will probably be my
> Raspberry Pi development and fiddling box.  Then I plan to do
> another to go between our T1 and the 192.136.111.0/24 public
> network which will handle our primary firewall against IPs that
> have tried port scans and other nasty connection attempts.
> 
> Bill
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