Solved - Re: How/where do I get hponcfg for Ubuntu 24?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 7/2/25 1:29 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 at 21:10, Robert Moskowitz via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> I realized over the weekend that I really need to step up my game on using Ubuntu.  It is clear that I will be using it a lot.
> Why?
>
>> I have 20+ years on CentOS and Fedora and how things are done there.  I have no problem adding repos; I need to be as skilled with Ubuntu.  So please bare with me, as I learn.
> Why are you switching?

It was long overdue to replace my home-grown email server:

http://medon.htt-consult.com/Centos7-mailserver.html

It was a disaster waiting to happen.  I looked into iRedmail, but I was 
struggling with AlmaLinux on my HPE Gen10+ and could not get it to set 
up Raid.  So the box sat for 2 years while I did other stuff.  Then I 
found Mail-in-a-Box, and for all its shortcomings, it does well enough.  
But it is only Ubuntu.

Thus to get off of home-growing my email server to running something, 
for the most part, click and install, it was on to Ubuntu.

Once Ubuntu in place for my mailserver, I turned my attention to fixing 
up all my DNS servers.  MiaB runs NDS as an authoritative server and I 
still needed my local recursive server.  My friends in the IETF (Rob 
Austien, and Jim Reid) told me to use ubound.  I have/had 4 armv7 boxes 
here running CentOS7 that needed upgrading.

So do I only run Ubuntu for mail, or do I take the leap and get 
comfortable with Ubuntu to better deal with my mailserver.

So now I have 5 boxes running Ubuntu.  4 are zboxnanos and one the Gen10+.

I will continue with Fedora on my notebook, but now all my servers are 
Ubuntu and I can do the same on all of them.  Once I learn what is 
different from Centos...

So there you have a piece of my journey.

> They are very different distros run in very different ways. There are
> significantly philosophical differences.
>
> But while CentOS Linux is dead, and CentOS Stream isn't the same thing
> at all, there are alternatives.
>
> Rocky is pretty close to the old CentOS Linux.
>
> Alma is trying to improve the distro to bring it a bit closer to how
> things work in the free world. As in, where version-to-version
> upgrades are _normal_ and just work, where old hardware doesn't just
> stop working because some big business whose stuff you don't use said
> it wasn't supported any more.

I probably dived into Alma too soon and at the time Rocky did not 
impress me.  Well water under the bridge.

> I worked for RH. I do not much like the RH family of distros, myself.
> But they have their community.

I go back to Whitehat.  I ran Centos1 on a notebook and stayed with 
Centos on my notebook until Fedora6.  I was active on the porting of 
Fedora/Centos to armv7 (even RedSleeve on armv5).  But that is now well 
in the rearview mirror.

> Sure, I kind of prefer the Debian way, and Ubuntu makes Debian hurt less.
>
> But if you're steeped in CentOS then what's wrong with Alma Linux?
>

Probably now I could swing it.  But, at least for now, I am trying to 
live with Ubuntu and not dealing too much with its Debian roots.

Fun stuff!

Also I have a major project coming up:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-drip-dki/

See sec 6.

And I will need many  boxes for the PKI.  Being able to roll this in 
Ubuntu may be critical for adoption.