I have found opensuse to be very stable and the upgrades to be drama free IF (big if) you stick to the distribution repositories. For a server, sticking to the disty repos is very likely. It is desktop users (me) that load a lot of software from other repos that occasionally muck things up.
I run centos 7 on my servers and opensuse on the desktop. They are very similar. I always have trouble when I have to use Debian, which these days is only on a R Pi. Opensuse can use three different package managers, one of which being yum. Original Message From: barb...@rfx.it Sent: December 17, 2020 6:57 AM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: RE: migration from 2.0.16 On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Marc Roos wrote: > I would not choose centos 8 it has EOL < than centos7. IBM is pulling > the plug on the centos distribution, and makes it more or less a beta > for the rhel. Thus centos7 and then you have a few years to decide what > to choose. Enough to go to full containerized eg. ;) We own the servers and use CT (LXC). The IBM move is clear, but going to C7 today seems to me not a good choice. It is in its descending stage and in a couple of years packages are going to became very outdated. If RH8 remain "open source" I suppose the community or some interested medium level company that use CentOS for their business can became a new CentOS and switch to a different named distro is supposed to be only a question of replace repositories. That seems to me a smoother path (IMHO). Debian 10 is EOL on 2022 Ubuntu LTS seems a solution, but I hadn't ever used it (I may be wrong, but in the past Canonical don't inspire me to much trust). Other options (not too "exotic")? > You do not need to rsync, dovecot can sync messages. I am just in the > process of migrating a server from a different network to a different > mailbox format. > > My approach was to create an 'archive' namespace on shared slower but > distributed storage so I do not have to move to much data. I am studying the situation, but there are many variables and the old age of the source server probably meke it more complex. And I am not a dovecot expert ... Thanks, B.
