08-17-2020, 10:06 AM
@rudra .. Really appreciate your initiative at conducting this survey 
Here are my responses:
1. For production, I use CentOS distribution only. Usually it's 7 but I might use CentOS 8 for testing compatibility of my applications.
2. Yes, and in fact I'm doing that. I'm using something called REAR (RElax And Recover) to store a copy of the OS as it was when freshly installed. REAR is a part of the distro, so I could just revert back to a fresh installation whenever I feel the OS needs to be reinstalled. Sparing a few gigs on a 100 GB SSD is worth the hassle you could avoid in future.
3. I'd like it if possible. Although the (2) point eliminates the need for this, it'd still be beneficial if I want another distro (or another version of the same distro).
4. I use both.
And yeah it's not a joke. At my mobile for example, where I use Termius to SSH into my VPSes, I store the SSH key instead of storing my password as it has the auto-login feature. On other systems where I ise putty or anything else to login, I prefer a password. SSH isn't served over port 22 on my VPSes so really doesn't matter if I don't disable root login.
5. For the OS partitions, I've a custom scheme which HR did for me while installing the OS from ISO. 512 MiB for bootloader and kernel, 78 GiB for the "home" partition and 25 GiB for the "root" partition.
Hope that helps!
Here are my responses:1. For production, I use CentOS distribution only. Usually it's 7 but I might use CentOS 8 for testing compatibility of my applications.
2. Yes, and in fact I'm doing that. I'm using something called REAR (RElax And Recover) to store a copy of the OS as it was when freshly installed. REAR is a part of the distro, so I could just revert back to a fresh installation whenever I feel the OS needs to be reinstalled. Sparing a few gigs on a 100 GB SSD is worth the hassle you could avoid in future.
3. I'd like it if possible. Although the (2) point eliminates the need for this, it'd still be beneficial if I want another distro (or another version of the same distro).
4. I use both.
And yeah it's not a joke. At my mobile for example, where I use Termius to SSH into my VPSes, I store the SSH key instead of storing my password as it has the auto-login feature. On other systems where I ise putty or anything else to login, I prefer a password. SSH isn't served over port 22 on my VPSes so really doesn't matter if I don't disable root login. 5. For the OS partitions, I've a custom scheme which HR did for me while installing the OS from ISO. 512 MiB for bootloader and kernel, 78 GiB for the "home" partition and 25 GiB for the "root" partition.
Hope that helps!