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"Let me guess: Debian?" I confirm.
He says "I thought so. Everyone I talk to who has run Linux for a long time runs Debian."
I wonder what that says, that anyone who has actually worked with Linux for a decent amount of time tends to run Debian. I wonder if he thought about what it means.
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If the person said "I'm a new Linux user", then the rep should guess Ubuntu.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Every time I give SLES a chance, it's just painful to use. It's like using Windows again. Debian seems to have broken the mold in a lot of ways, and once you get accustomed to that other systems seem constraining.
Admittedly, maybe it's just my lack of understanding about SLES.
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Debian tries and to some extent succeeds, in trying trying to integrate everything in a single logical way. Debian isn't perfect, but it's pretty damn good and considering how much it costs and how much money is put in to build and maintain it, it is a fantastic achievement.
I suppose once you "buy" into Debain, anything that's not Debian seems so primitive, lacking bits and totally lacking in integration.
I've used Red Hat/CentOS (I'm Red Hat certified), Solaris (2.5/2.6 era) and AIX 5.3L (I'm IBM trained), but I still think Debian is a better integrated solution than all of them. Mind you as I one said, once you know something well you are hardly an unbiased observer...!
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Oddly enough, as I was talking to a much newer sysadmin type at work the other day, I said my Windows-managing coworker couldn't take on any extra labs or systems, and that I wanted nothing to do with managing anything with a Windows logo on it. A nearby student worker asked "what around here doesn't have a Windows logo on it?"
"Well, a few dozen servers downstairs, three labs upstairs that we dual-boot into a cluster when the labs are closed, blahblahblah..." (my Nagios monitor is up around 100 Linux, Solaris, or dual-boot systems)
"Oh. What do they run?"
"Debian."
"Of course."
And the newer folks might not have seen this one: "Debian. You peasant."
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I like Debian because it's got lots of things in it, it's all well integrated, and stable is stable for long enough to not to have to upgrade too often without being to ancient. Plus on Debian boxes you just upgrade them without pain, not an easy or reliable option on Red Hat or Windows boxes.
If I recall, doesn't the controller make them run BSD..?
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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But MS Windows can also be scripted. But there is not that many skilled sysadms out there, that knows how to handle MS Windows networks...
But dispite MS Windows are possible, Debian beats it in all ways. Even when you start talking drivers. That is really a mess in MS Windows.
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I believe that it's better now than previously, but Microsoft even wrote a report stating that the move of Hotmail from BSD/Unix to Microsoft Windows was a technical disaster because Windows just doesn't scale or automate as well as Unix does...
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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It just works, what can be better?
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I was never so happy when I switched from rpm-based distros, to debian. Seems as though debian is the all-inclusive, best-supported linux distribution out there.
Woohoo!!
Hugs,
Brittany
SimplyMepis 7, KDE 3.5.8, Evolution, Firefox
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