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Re: Cent OS migration
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:57:33 -0700
On 5/9/11 11:58 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
----- Original Message -----From: "Walter Vaughan" <wvaughan () steelerubber com>You most definately will want to make sure your user id's are identical between the two systems, otherwise stuff like @CB will have wrong information.Excellent point.Also, do you have any expertise maintaing a linux box? If you want something closer to SCO in mentality, FreeBSD and SCO have the same grandparents.
if you mean they forked from a common tree around 1976, sure but beyond that the similarities are superficial. http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf
Linuxis like the cute girl that moved into town. Stuff isn't always where you expect to find it, and you may get a surprise if you reach into the wrong place.
If one's introduction to operating systems was less than 35 years ago maybe not, the analogy posed is completely mysterious me.
Oh, don't *even* send him to BSD. CentOS and SuSE 11 are the only rational free Linuces for business use.
that's an opinion, certainly there are a diversity of opinions to the contrary with sufficient scale to disprove that handily.
*Any* of the BSDs are so much less well supported that they'll drive you straight up a wall.
Start with, "what is the most appropriate tool for the problem I am trying to solve"
Cheers, -- jra
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- Re: Cent OS migration Jay Ashworth (May 09)
- Re: Cent OS migration Lori Jakab (May 09)
- Re: Cent OS migration Jeroen van Aart (May 09)
- Re: Cent OS migration Joel Jaeggli (May 09)
- Re: Cent OS migration Michael Holstein (May 09)
- Re: Cent OS migration Kevin Oberman (May 09)
- Re: Cent OS migration Lamar Owen (May 09)
- Re: Cent OS migration William Pitcock (May 09)
- Re: Cent OS migration Blake Hudson (May 10)
- Re: Cent OS migration Lamar Owen (May 09)
- Re: Cent OS migration Lori Jakab (May 09)
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- Re: Cent OS migration Jay Ashworth (May 09)