A question for the core dev team

A friend of mine is an a mostly retired IC developer who worked for several
of the Silicon Forest tech companies in Beaverton, OR, as well as for
himself, is seeking a replacement for the Scientific Linux verson of CentOS
he ran for years. He's considering debian or ubuntu for both local,
personal, use and remote use. He's obsessed with backups (saves all old
backup drives in bank safety deposit boxes) and replication. In other words,
he's a fussy curmudgeon. :-)

I've suggested Slackware for his needs and cannot answer the questions he
asked. If Slackware could do what he wants as explained below, please
contact him directly (he's not on this mail list, of course). If not, let me
know and I'll pass the word to him.

Thanks in advance,

Rich

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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 23:50:22 -0800
From: Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] ubuntu or debian

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 05:53:14AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
>>My goal is to have fewer machines using one operating system, and focus my
>>time and attention on writing, math, science, engineering, invention, and
>>learning.
>
> I switched from RedHat-7.0 to Slackware-8.0 in 2003. Now I'm running
> Slackware-15.0 on my laptop and, still, -14.2 on this desktop.

Rich, offlist:

After your previous recommendation (a few months ago), I took a serious look
at Slackware. The Slackware software offerings for personal computers are
considerable, but I also maintain an offsite virtual data center presence. I
currently use Rimuhosting and CentOS (soon losing long term support); my
other options there are Debian and Ubuntu.

Ubuntu will stop offering LTS support in 2024, a sudden change of direction
that I did not anticipate when I started using Ubuntu.

I can transition to Amazon Web Services with many more options (a younger
prot=E9g=E9 is an AWS executive), but slackware is not among those options.

Who offers slackware virtuals or low-cost dedicated and maintained slackware
hardware in commercial data centers? Have you experience with those
services? The dependency chain between your personal slackware server and
the internet may be adequate for your usage and your external users, but I
interact with and serve a global community.

I am currently virtually hosted in the Rimuhosting data center in Dallas,
with failover to Brisbane Australia and London England. No failover to the
southern western hemisphere yet, but a colleague in Guatemala can provide
virtual server space - for Debian only.

Although I have used CentOS professionally and played with Ubuntu for years,
and I write this email on an Ubuntu machine, it appears that Debian is my
least-bad option and most familiar option for a globally-connected
offsite-server-hosted LTS future.

Keith

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