Wrote a thing here about why I'm sad to go: https://alanfleming.org/2024/05/08/Goodbye-OpenVMS/.
tldr: re-creating things once a year to get to point where I was last at is a pain in the neck, and the thought of having to do that sucks the fun out of doing anything. And VSI could have easily designed a hobbyist programme where this didn't need to happen.
Stopping being a hobbyist.
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It is a pain. But you can always create a Users disk as a second vmdk disc. Use that to make porting what your doing easier than doing it all in system.alanfleming wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 6:33 amWrote a thing here about why I'm sad to go: https://alanfleming.org/2024/05/08/Goodbye-OpenVMS/.
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He mentions that in his post....
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Re: Stopping being a hobbyist.
from the system manager view, i'd much rather be given access to the software and license and let me build my own system and keep it upgraded/patched. That way i know exactly how i installed and configured my system and not have to guess. I certainly am not looking forward to loosing all the changes i've made the the system that can not be kept on a separate disk. I'm not sure i will continue with the hobby once this env expires as i tend to make lots of changes to the system since i am 90% a sysadm and not a developer. This program doesn't allow me to get any experience doing installs or upgrades which sysadms do