I would add that since this is for a VM dedicated to running Bacula 
daemons, nearly all of the distros have a minimal install ISO image. 
Few, if any, of the bells and whistles installed with a full install are 
in any way useful to the Bacula daemons.


On 5/18/2017 2:22 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> 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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