On 31/01/2022 14:39, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-01-31 at 13:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
I installed a Centos7 system and during the install process called it fedora.local. By default this was placed in etc/hostname.
Wasn't ".local" and Avahi/Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf non-traditional DHCP and DNS thing? Does it still require different configuration techniques?
I've always steered clear of it. Like SMB, instead of having a centrol control that you could configure to work how you wanted it, everything has some kind of round-table conference, repeatedly, and might manage to sort things out between themselves. But, like a committee of volunteers, was also likely to mismanage the whole shebang.
I don't know much about Avahi/Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf I think it is/was a way to shoehorn Linux into some Windows environments. I hardly had to deal with that.
I also didn't deal much with SMB as only ever had a couple of Windows systems. Now None. And the companies I worked for had staff that dealt with that. Not to toot my horn, I did have to come to their rescue from time to time. It didn't make it any easier with their horrible understanding of networking.
I really just setup Centos7 to see if I could replicate the difficulty the OP was having. Frankly, I had no issues so I can't comment on that.
Happy all is well. Wondering why on earth you've not upgraded your systems to Centos8 :-) :-)
I have a server on CentOS 7. I looked at 8 by temporarily installing it on another computer, and there was so many problems I'd have to resolve, without improving one particular thing that I actually cared about, that I couldn't see it being worth my while.
I don't really use CentOS. I just keep basic installs as VM's in the case they come up as being used by someone else.
Not long ago, 16 Nov 2021, I had one of their email press releases stating that the latest version of 8 had just been released and that it's EOL would be 31 Dec 2021. I had to check that wasn't a typo.
I do need to see what direction CentOS is now talking. If only for "educational" purposes only. I don't intend to become a "subject matter expert" :-)
A bit more internet noodling around suggested that if you'd chosen to use CentOS for the usual reasons (a server that you wanted to be stable), then CentOS Stream wasn't going to be what you wanted.
FWIW, I too stay away from Flatpaks. For me they are more pain than they are worth.
Slightly works on most things, only fully works on the same system as the programmer used...
I can't print anything using packages that didn't come from our own repos (whether that be Fedora or CentOS), it just doesn't work. And it ruins one of the chief benefits of having a distro with its own repo (everything from one central place, that usually just works because they've all been tested together).
Yes, I think some of your comments on this list about Flatpaks assisted in keeping me away from them. :-) :-)
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