Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-10 Thread Blake Hudson
William Pitcock wrote: > Anyway, I was just wondering what the general consensus of NANOG is > regarding CentOS vs Scientific Linux. SL generally has faster security > updates and people are *paid* to work on it fulltime. CentOS on the > other hand is supported out-of-the-box by most software.

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 9 May 2011 17:14:06 -0400 Lamar Owen wrote: > On Monday, May 09, 2011 04:45:36 PM Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Depends on what he is doing. BSDs tend to be far more mature than > > any Linux. They are poor systems for desktops or anything like > > that. They are heavily used as servers by man

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, May 09, 2011 04:45:36 PM Kevin Oberman wrote: > Depends on what he is doing. BSDs tend to be far more mature than any > Linux. They are poor systems for desktops or anything like that. They > are heavily used as servers by many vary large providers and as the > basis for many products li

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:58:57 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jay Ashworth > > - Original Message - > > From: "Walter Vaughan" > > > 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. >

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Lori Jakab wrote: 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/ That article perfectly illustrates why using or moving to debian makes a lot of sense. Greetings, Jeroen -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Holstein
> *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

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 5/9/11 11:58 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Walter Vaughan" > >> 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

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread Lori Jakab
On 05/09/2011 08:58 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > CentOS and SuSE 11 are the only rational free Linuces for business use. 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

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread Jay Ashworth
Original Message - > From: "Brant I. Stevens" > >CentOS and SuSE 11 are the only rational free Linuces for business > >use. > > Don't forget Scientific Linux as well. Same heritage as CentOS. "Scientific Linux? What's that?" :-) And while there's probably nothing wrong with the OS o

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Walter Vaughan" > 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 wa