[svlug] RHL 5.2

[Rob Walker]

>>>>> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:48:33 -0800 (PST), George Bonser
>>>>> <grep at shorelink.com> said:

George> Again, Red Hat has their head stuck up their single-user
George> desktop. In most enterprise IT environments, /home is an

yes.

George> automount area. The web document root does NOT belong in /home

/home is automount here, and whenever we put a box online, /home and
all of the rpm database entries are lost as well.

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

I would like to have had the chance to build an enterprise on Debian.
>From what I have seen of it, I am impressed.

rob

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