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@l0dr3 One more thing you and I have in common! I started moving my Win2008 server to an MX server December 3. I am now approx 80% done, with only some last ASP hold out web drama left to do :-)

@CharlesV I'm on ~75% now .. 75% ATM, bcof the HTPC part (record-store-and-stream AV stuff from various sources on the box and stream into the homelab, so AV clients can play this content w#standard clients, such as VLC, MPC or DVBV as IP-client )

For this purpose, over the last 15y, i had two highly up-armed - but now 'ancient' and now 'no longer supported' - windows servers, i paid licence fees for:

- a 2K11 HomeServer, in a setup w#modifications to act as a 'PseudoAD/LDAP' server with full support for centralized DHCP/DNS services
- a 2K8R2 Web-Server, on which i had a MultiMedia setup for DVBViewer (and: WinSTB, oc ) for DVB-S2 cards, by 'upgrading' this box w#some 'unofficial' DirectX components

BUT: as as 'XMas gift', @timkb4cq /THX/ viewtopic.php?p=756982#p756982 released the MX Version of Myth-TV! - I am on testing since this morning .. looks very promisingly, seems that i've found a (more than equivalent!) successor/competitor for my future 'linux-only' HTPC environments

I made my peace w#Samba/NAS special setup on MX, transformed my former win-only VirtualBox-Workflows 1:1 to MX, and ATM, i'm pretty sure, that i can integrate my ZFS-Workflows (which rely on a separate TrueNAS/BSD box thus far) into Debian/MX - latest fixes for ZFS-DKMS just arrived today on SID )

Merry Christmas .. and a HAPPY new year to all MXers and forum users

greetz l0dr3

l0dr3 wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:21 pm @CharlesV I'm on ~75% now .. 75% ATM, bcof the HTPC part (record-store-and-stream AV stuff from various sources on the box and stream into the homelab, so AV clients can play this content w#standard clients, such as VLC, MPC or DVBV as IP-client )

For this purpose, over the last 15y, i had two highly up-armed - but now 'ancient' and now 'no longer supported' - windows servers, i paid licence fees for:

Ya, I get this one... I bailed out of my MS Dev Licenses approx 6 years ago and maintained my two windows servers and five workstations, phasing them all out over the last 5 years - except for the LAST server and 1 real workstation. (All leaving this year :-) FINALLY !!

CharlesV wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:25 pm ... FINALLY !!

YEP - as :the SATAN sayed: ... Windows10 will be the last windows ever

At least for me - it was my last Windows /PERIOD/

My roadmap so far has always been: at the end of 2023, i'll be windows-free

l0dr3 wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:37 pm

CharlesV wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:25 pm ... FINALLY !!

YEP - as :the SATAN sayed: ... Windows10 will be the last windows ever

At least for me - it was my last Windows /PERIOD/

My roadmap so far has always been: at the end of 2023, i'll be windows-free

Nice... Ya.. my last hold out is the MS Sqlserver... once I have all that archived and moved I can kill Server - and yes! Win10 IS the last one I will run, and at this point only two VM's left - Win Server and Win10 to go :-)

Congrats one being done with MS too btw! I am shortly behind ya :-)

Hi I0dr3, Sorry why people don't use names, lol

Anyway, thank you for the information. I'm already running PiHole on a Pi3 and Unbound on OPNsense, few months back I had Pihole and Unbound running on Pi. Works really well, in future I might move the PiHole config to a VM running on Proxmox. Save me few $$ and one less thing to maintain.