Re: [Bacula-users] Recommended OS for VM?

Thanks - I may give Mint a try and see how it looks. Which Bacula installer would I use for Mint? I don't recall seeing a build named for that (but I may not have been looking in the right place).

I've certainly heard of many of the distros by name but I don't know enough to choose between them just based on name. OTOH, I am familiar with using a command-line interface (and even know a handful of typical commands), so it's not necessary to be completely GUI-driven, for instance. I can figure out how to use commands if I have reasonable instructions to follow.

Davin

At 03:51 PM 5/16/2017, C M Reinehr wrote:

DistroWatch.com has the most comprehensive list of Linux distro's that
I'm aware of. And, according to their home page, Mint is the most
popular of the distros & the most beginner friendly. I've never
personally used Mint but from what I understand it is pretty user
friendly. The second most popular distribution is Debian, which is what
I use, but definitely is less user friendly than Mint.

MySQL would be a good choice for your database.

Hope this helps!

cmr

On 05/16/2017 03:16 PM, Davin Church wrote:
> My current home Bacula system is so terribly ancient that I've just
> got to get rid of it, but no pre-compiled updates are available for
> Windows. So it looks like my best bet to is to create a VirtualBox
> VM (on my Win8.1 host) and load some flavor of *nix on it and install
> the appropriate binaries and run the system from there.
>
> However, since I'm barely conversant with *nix OSes in general (and
> none specifically), I'd like a recommendation on which (free) OS to
> use. I'd like it to be easy to acquire and set up both the OS and
> the latest community Bacula binaries so it doesn't strain my limited
> technical skills. It would also be best if that OS wasn't prone to
> having compatibility issues that I see mentioned from time to
> time. I'll be backing up to disk rather than tape, so that should
> simplify things a bit. I presume that MySQL would still be a good DB
> choice to use in whichever OS I end up with?
>
> So has anyone got a recommendation (and perhaps some download links) for me?
>
> Davin
>
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