Cent OS migration

[Jay Ashworth]

CC: *nanog*?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net>

> > 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.
> 
> 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 like Ironport (Cisco) and JunOS (Juniper).
> (I'll admit that I run FreeBSD on my laptop with great success, but you have
> to REALLY want it.)

You have to REALLY want it -- that's my response to BSD at all at the
moment.  The community size is 1% or less that of the Linuces, IME, and
since he's new to the OS, he's going to need all the help he can get.

> The one Linux distro I don't recommend for experienced users is
> Ubuntu. I don't like Windows because it presumes it know how I want to
> do things better than I do and Ubuntu does the same. If my sister was
> planing to play with Linux, I'd send her directly to Ubuntu, though.
> (Tool...job. She does not get along well with computers.)

Yup.  Got no arguments with anything you've said here... but I don't think
any of those points suggest that the original SCO-replacing poster should 
even be considering *BSD, for his particular goals.

Cheers,
-- jra