On 5/9/11 11:58 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Walter Vaughan" <wvaug...@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 > 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" > Cheers, > -- jra >
