Yes, i’m sorry,
I mean & have said “does the developers told themselves “we need a deadline to take the decision” somewhere ?”
Thanks to work with the community anyway, I really love the way Nethesis do the job.
Excuse my lack of english i do not want to be rude I miss vocabulary and style.
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Sorry from my side to understand you wrong. 
@Remy This really isn’t an easy change and you do have to take into consideration your current customers first and foremost. I’m sure what ever decision you all make it will be for the best of your customers and then the community. As long as this community doesn’t go away!! That can’t happen!! 
Très beau travail à vous et toute votre équipe et bon courage! Et un gros merci à toute la communauté Nethserver.
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because I was too lazy and simply cut and past it 
The deadline is already known: the end of support of CentOS 7. But i’m feeling confident that something new will be seen at least one year before.
Deburring, polishing ad refining take time…
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another reason is the really old version of docker IIUC
docker x86_64 2:1.13.1-203.git0be3e21.el7.centos ce-extras 18 M
docker-client x86_64 2:1.13.1-203.git0be3e21.el7.centos ce-extras 3.9 M
docker-common x86_64 2:1.13.1-203.git0be3e21.el7.centos ce-extras 100 k
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thank you sir for your time and your clear explanation 
But @stephdl sorry, I don’t get the IIUC acronym
because it is possible to install Docker from their REPO and have a decent version of docker-ce
Here is the community speaking, but which direction the Nethserver teams are talking about, going nuts with Gentoo or simply building Ansible Playbook ?
Looked into this idea a little bit and started with OPNsence, which has an extensive api:
https://docs.opnsense.org/development/api.html
so yes, just from this one query it is possible.
Looking further into the internals of OPNsence found something else remarkable,
at least I had never heard of it.
An other framework for creating templates which is actively developed: Jinja
https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/master/intro/
Not suggesting e-smith does not a good job, just interesting how others cope with this. 
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Hi folks,
if Nethserver has to change the distribution completely away from RHEL/CentOS/…, could Proxmox be an option?
Please forgive me my ignorance, I dont know how much work this would be…
By OS perspective, Proxmox is… hardware. Just like KVM, VirtualBox, ESX.
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Proxmox is 1 to 1 Debian inside!
And we’ve already discussed Debian above. I would not oppose that!
My 2 cents
Andy
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Hey guys; I was just taking a look at DistroWatch and I saw a new distro AlmaLinux which is already based on RHEL 8 and is already more popular than Nethserver
it look pretty strong: https://almalinux.org
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I would favor Alma or even better: Rocky Linux. Prefer Rocky since there is no commercial company behind it, but a foundation.
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People are looking for a new home. Mentioning so many times the community is a bit weird
And very positive for me
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It depends on the outcome for NethServer. And the drawbacks that the policy change of RedHat will bring to your project.
Currently, the drop of shorewall (outiside CentOS/NethServer 7) is my concerning point… After the big Stream (allegedly) mess
Meanwhile in the Rocky Linux community:
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Hello Guys
First the same as mostly good work
I am using Linux sine kernel 1.0 and Slackware since 0.9. The are alo of nice un fine running distributions. So dying over the time.
As the base of neth you need a ligth and textbase server dist…
Please do not use anykind of Ubuntu … When ever i try them it was bad :-(, no fine support and to mutch software you do not need ever.
Same with MINT it is fine running desktop version, but nothing else. I am using this to 20 Version.
There are not so mutch server dist… Debian, well supported a loooong time, stable but mostly old fashion and CentOS.
Suse Sever is nice but only if you pay…
What else first a BSD or extremly Solaris …
thx Axel