[svlug] RHL 5.2

[George Bonser]

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:

> I see this as a technically correct and generally ignorable
> argument.  The fact that they aren't real users really doesn't
> matter outside of some arbitrary ivory tower design.  The concerns I
> raised are purely pragmatic: functional reasons and cases for having
> them on the same or different partitions.  In the larger case, and
> outside of personal familiarity and automatic finger reactions, I
> really don't care exactly where they end up on the filesystem, I
> just want them somewhere what makes my system easy to set up and
> configure.

Again, Red Hat has their head stuck up their single-user desktop. In most
enterprise IT environments, /home is an automount area. The web document
root does NOT belong in /home ... home directories for users that move
about the facillities do. Red Hat is fine for a onesie system for a
single-user at home that has never touched Linux before ... easy and
pretty ... but it SUCKS as far as layout and configuration. I would choose
Debian over Red Hat any day for servers on a large net. Red Hat is fine
for a GUI X desktop. I would not use it for anything else, though ... like
putting it in an NIS/automount environment. Too much reconfiguring to be
done. With Debian, you just install the NIS and autofs packages, answer
the questions and you are done ... and it just works.



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