[140298] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cent OS migration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon May 9 15:02:19 2011
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DC8306E.3090108@steelerubber.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> 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
