Ubuntu Install / Weekend warrior project

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There's a single-line Ubuntu-as-server checklist:

1)  Slash wrists.

I recently installed Ubuntu Server 17 to do a baseline performance test
comparison against CentOS.  I had nothing but problems with the
-installation-.  I mean, if anything should go smoothly, it should be the
installer.

Nope.

First, it wouldn't write grub to the MBR.  Then, upon retries, it flaked
the network interface to a degree which appears to have corrupted the ARP
table entry for that IP#.  Then I got the networking back in the installer
when I moved to a different IP#, but grub wouldn't install at least seven
more times.  FINALLY I coaxed it into installing.

Then, once you have it installed, -nothing- is in a standard location.
Then entire absence of /etc/sysconfig/ (a long-standing location which
-both- SuSE and Red Hat have used for over a decade) is a massive red flag.

Between the politics of their organisation, and the obvious love and care
which went into their 'engineering', I would -almost- rather install
Windows Server 2012 than Ubuntu Server.  I hate it that much.  I -can- work
with it, but I -can- work with Windows Server, too.  That doesn't mean it's
a good fit.

As a desktop, fine...whatever.  Enjoy.  As a server?  Are you insane, or
just a masochist?

m->

On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 12:06:21PM -0400, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Getting close to a weekend warrior project which includes:
> 
> 1. Backup SCO based filePro application
> 2. Install Ubuntu Server in PC/Server
> 3. Install filePro runtime/dev licenses in Ubuntu Server
> 4. Restore filePro application in Ubuntu Server
> 5. Run reasonable tests (1 or 2 lol) to make sure all is well and
> shell scripts/menus work as expected
> 
> Most if not all of my Linux experience has been with Ubuntu (love
> the community and simplicity of it all).  Never done filePro in one
> and I am hoping that I will not be forced to use SuSe or some other
> flavor (worst yet, RH).
> 
> If there is a "Check List" or a "How To" available to us out there,
> please point me in that direction ...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jose D. Lerebours
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