On Thu, October 2, 2014 9:02 am, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 14:48 +0100, isdtor wrote: > >> A >> new and recent requirement is to keep the machine free of >> poetteringware as much as possible. > > Too optimistic. As Johnny states: what is in RHEL is, inevitably, in > Centos. > > I'm staying on Centos 6 ...... for as long as possible. > And then, finally going away - likely to FreeBDS, NetBSD, OpenBSD (much less likely), PC-BSD (more likely) - you continue the list yourself... ;-) My next laptop (I'm eagerly awaiting its arrival) will be FreeBSD (knocking on wood I didn't screw up with hardware and will not screw up with system installation...) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++