The current OS on which Bacula is implemented, built and tested is 
Ubuntu 16.04.  Mint is essentially the same thing with a slightly 
different user interface. All distros are good and each has its 
advantages and disadvantages ...

Best regards,

Kern



On 05/16/2017 10:16 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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