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Kevin SmallBone
The reality is that all Linux distributions suck. No matter which distro you
choose, if you use it for enough different tasks, you're *going* to tickle
some bug in some library, or some quirk in some tool, or some idiosyncrasy,
or missing package, or weird config syntax, or oddball package management.
stuff. If you run into LDAP issues on one distro, and move to another one to
get around that issue, you'll inevitably run into a broken PAM module or
something. If you have compilation issues on one platform because of GCC,
and switch distros, you'll have compile issues because of autoconf. If you
leave one distro to get an upgraded Apache version in another, you'll
inevitably find that *that* distro has an outdated Python install.
Of course, most fanboys don't really understand this, because they run,
like, 3 towers in their basement with a dynamic dns setup, and a firewall
that isolates the other two towers on their own network segments, and then
brag to their buddies how that have a "production" network with a DMZ in
their house. They've never had to do what you'd call "managing servers".
They've never had to automate the installation of a farm of machines that
authenticate via cross-domain authentication schemes, or had to use a
protocol analyzer to figure out why *one* guy in a thousand can't reach
their web site, or set up a print server that supports 10 versions *each* of
Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris, to any of about 60 different printers of
varying makes and models, or support teams of developers requiring 3
versions of perl, 6 versions of gcc, 4 versions of Java, 3 versions of
Python, two versions of PHP, InnoDB *and* MyISAM tables in MySQL, in
addition to PostgreSQL (and they've never had to back all this stuff up).
If you think there's a distro that does everything under the sun flawlessly,
you should not let other people know that you think that. Further, if you've
never used a distro, but are going to bash it, don't let people know you've
never used the distro. Better yet, don't bash stuff you haven't used. Shut
up and learn from people who *have* used it.
choose, if you use it for enough different tasks, you're *going* to tickle
some bug in some library, or some quirk in some tool, or some idiosyncrasy,
or missing package, or weird config syntax, or oddball package management.
stuff. If you run into LDAP issues on one distro, and move to another one to
get around that issue, you'll inevitably run into a broken PAM module or
something. If you have compilation issues on one platform because of GCC,
and switch distros, you'll have compile issues because of autoconf. If you
leave one distro to get an upgraded Apache version in another, you'll
inevitably find that *that* distro has an outdated Python install.
Of course, most fanboys don't really understand this, because they run,
like, 3 towers in their basement with a dynamic dns setup, and a firewall
that isolates the other two towers on their own network segments, and then
brag to their buddies how that have a "production" network with a DMZ in
their house. They've never had to do what you'd call "managing servers".
They've never had to automate the installation of a farm of machines that
authenticate via cross-domain authentication schemes, or had to use a
protocol analyzer to figure out why *one* guy in a thousand can't reach
their web site, or set up a print server that supports 10 versions *each* of
Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris, to any of about 60 different printers of
varying makes and models, or support teams of developers requiring 3
versions of perl, 6 versions of gcc, 4 versions of Java, 3 versions of
Python, two versions of PHP, InnoDB *and* MyISAM tables in MySQL, in
addition to PostgreSQL (and they've never had to back all this stuff up).
If you think there's a distro that does everything under the sun flawlessly,
you should not let other people know that you think that. Further, if you've
never used a distro, but are going to bash it, don't let people know you've
never used the distro. Better yet, don't bash stuff you haven't used. Shut
up and learn from people who *have* used it.