Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:24:10 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux for freebsd admins Message-ID: <20080711232410.31ce0f74@ayiin> In-Reply-To: <20080711075708.e9fee4a7.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <990695FC90DB4BC8B3439F779B73FCF8@msdi.local> <20080711075708.e9fee4a7.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:57:08 -0400
Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote:
> In response to "Ian Lord" <mailing-lists@msdi.ca>:
> >
> > I have to install a linux machine and don't know which distribution to take.
>
> I highly recommend CentOS for the following reasons:
> 1) It's free.
> 2) It's kept up to date.
> 3) It's 100% Red Hat compatible, which means:
> a) 99% of the howtos on the internet will work
> b) 99% of the Linux packages you find will work
> c) You can lie to vendors and tell them you're running Red Hat to get
> support.
+1
> As for the packages thing: 300 seems to be about the minimum # of
> packages to make a working Linux install. Keep in mind that
> _everything_ is a package in Linux, even the kernel, so just installing
> typical stuff like ls and ps and top adds packages to the system.
yup
> The CentOS installer does have an option for an X-less install.
yup
> The Red Hat mentality doesn't go much for rolling your own packages,
> so you might not like CentOS for that reason, but it's a compromise.
actually, i've been rolling my own rpms from srpms and it IS quite simple.
> They have a # of upgrade managers similar to portupgrade, such as
> up2date and yum.
yum is 100 times better than up2date (except that u can't run 2 instances of
yum @ the same time...but it's just a minor annoyance)
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