Cent OS migration

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 5:34:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Cent OS migration
> This public service announcement was brought to you by Jay Ashworth:
> > I inadvertantly sent this to NANOG, instead of here, which caused
> > the
> > firestorm Brian and Mark will expect it did. :-)
> 
> Oh $diety. I pity you. :)

It wasn't actually too bad.  And I used it as a riff to prospect there
to see if anyone had any leads on the Menu* source code.  :-)

> > > *Any* of the BSDs are so much less well supported that they'll
> > > drive
> > > you straight up a wall.
> 
> It's the shallowness of the talent pool on the user/admin side, not a fault
> of the technical specs or implementation. Technically, FreeBSD is possibly
> even superior to Linux. But the ones that can admin it worth a damn are
> hardcore, and generally have better things to do than hold the hands of
> lusers, at least in their opinions.

Precisely.

> Let's put it this way...the people most likely to successfully -admin-
> BSD boxes would be equivalent in talent and expertise to linux kernel
> devs. There are just plain fewer of them.

This was my theory; yes.

Cheers,
-- jra
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