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. Linux
is 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.
Oh, don't *even* send him to BSD.
CentOS and SuSE 11 are the only rational free Linuces for business use.
*Any* of the BSDs are so much less well supported that they'll drive you
straight up a wall.
Cheers,
-- jra
With the uncertainty surrounding the future of CentOS, it's not
something I would recommend for business use at the moment. See the
following article for a collection of links why that's the case:
http://evilrouters.net/2011/04/11/its-time-to-move-on-from-centos/
Regards,
Lori Jakab
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.
Linux
is 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"
*Any* of the BSDs are so much less well supported that they'll drive you
straight up a wall.
If by "less supported" you mean that your local strip mall doesn't offer
a "BSD-certified-systems-engineer" class, then yeah .. but like anything
else, experience in the tricker stuff is going to come at a premium.
There are plenty of commercial support options (if that's your cup of
tea) for the various *BSD offerings.
IME, the BSD flavors (and versions of Linux like Slackware) are the
tools of choice by people who will support themselves. These are also
the people I trust when they come back and say "won't work, need to buy $x".
My $0.02.
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
PS: I'm not making a business judgment on going either route .. there's
a case to be made for "free, but takes 3 weeks to configure" versus
"costs WHAT? .. but you get 24x7 support". It's just that sometimes
nobody multiplies the 3wks * salary_of_person (and discovers that it
often is >= "WHAT?").
Lori Jakab wrote:
following article for a collection of links why that's the case:
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That article perfectly illustrates why using or moving to debian makes a lot of sense.
Greetings,
Jeroen