Re^2: Linux environment (was: Re^16: Recalcitrant placeholders)

Thank you hippo - that is extremely helpful

I will be the only sysadmin so Gentoo is definitely out of the question!

System perl is 5.16.3 (but 5.26 also available) so could well be what is powering your current shared hosting

I think you could be right...
I have been looking at this article to try and find out what the shared hosting is actually running. Most of the commands they suggest are not available...at least not over SSH. But cat /proc/version yields:

Linux version 3.10.0-962.3.2.lve1.5.39.el7.x86_64 (mockbuild@buildfarm
+2.com) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39) (GCC) ) #1 SMP 
+Thu Sep 17 06:10:33 EDT 2020
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Which looks remarkable similar to the sample output from a CentOS 7 box!

but systemd

I had no idea what systemd was...
Looking it up, I have little more idea but, more to the point, don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing...the online world seems to be pretty divided on the issue.

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Re^3: Linux environment (was: Re^16: Recalcitrant placeholders) by haukex (Archbishop) on Aug 09, 2021 at 19:17 UTC
I had no idea what systemd was... There are some interesting comments on `systemd` in some nodes by afoken starting here. I'm personally still ok with Debian and Ubuntu, but that's probably just because I've been using their style of configuration and package management for a while now. So from the list you gave above, I'd probably go with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, out of familiarity. Also, you don't necessarily need to buy a new PC, you can spin up a VM in e.g. VirtualBox pretty easily.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Linux environment (was: Re^16: Recalcitrant placeholders) by Bod (Parson) on Aug 09, 2021 at 19:51 UTC
I'm getting the impression from articles such as this that some of the divide between liking `systemd` and otherwise (he says trying to be diplomatic!) are more political than technical.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Linux environment (was: Re^16: Recalcitrant placeholders) by Bod (Parson) on Aug 09, 2021 at 19:56 UTC
you don't necessarily need to buy a new PC, you can spin up a VM Yes - that is probably a good way forward. I was thinking that having a Linux box as a separate machine, I might use it as a desktop for some productivity tasks and learn more about Linux in the process. But that would dilute it from being much of a replica of the webserver so perhaps better as a VM. Learning more about Linux is one of those things I have thought I ought to do for the last 20 years or so. But I would find it difficult to articulate why I should...	[reply]