Cent OS migration

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon May 9 13:47:25 PDT 2011


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Jaeggli" <joelja at bogus.com>

> On 5/9/11 11:58 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> > 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"

Yup.  And for the reasons I explained in that reply (or another),
Present Audience Size is a very important component of supportability 
for someone venturing into Linux for the first time in a Business
environment.  His questioning made it pretty clear this is an important
business server; running current supported commercial Linux distros for 
that is a *much* less risky approach than doing it on *BSD... not
even taking into account that (so far as I know) filePro *isn't supported
on BSD*.

I didn't just pull the reply out of my butt, Joel, and it wasn't a fanboi
response, as yours seems to suggest you think it is.

Cheers,
-- jra


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