From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 13:24:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17CB1065670 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:24:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7948FC17 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:24:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 10106 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2008 08:24:14 -0500 Received: from 203-166-248-146.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ayiin) (203.166.248.146) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 11 Jul 2008 08:24:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:24:10 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080711232410.31ce0f74@ayiin> In-Reply-To: <20080711075708.e9fee4a7.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <990695FC90DB4BC8B3439F779B73FCF8@msdi.local> <20080711075708.e9fee4a7.wmoran@potentialtech.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Linux for freebsd admins X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:24:15 -0000 On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:57:08 -0400 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Ian Lord" : > > > > 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) _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "And that's one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy." Paul Graham I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.