Petros <[email protected]> writes:

>> Also worth noting that with Linux, you tend to get a huge variance in
>> the way things are set up, depending on the sysadmins who created it.
>> If you bring in a new Linux shop, they may well take quite a while to
>> figure out how everything works, and then want to change it.
>
> I do not think that is true.

I'm a sysadmin.  I routinely inherit systems.  It's definitely true.

Simple things are usually consistent, but Toby's right that it can take
a while (weeks/months) to understand all the... quirks and pecadillos of
the previous maintainer.  I tend to dismiss that as incompetence, but it
could be style differences.

> It is probably even more consistent over years - compared to the move
> from Windows XP to Vista to Windows 7 to Windows 8.

I can't comment on Windows systems administration.

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