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[Slashdot] Debian World Domination Plan

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  • #2
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Since the Red Hat EOL announcements, I'm convinced that Debian is the way forward. In future, any money that I would normally spend on Linux - boxed distributions and update subscriptions - will go towards Debian.

    adam


  • #3
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    I'm considering doing so as well. However the debian install program still needs some major changes, since i have rh9 on my laptop, all the hardware working perfectly, i'm wondering if i run this debian script, can i keep my configuration files? or will i have to try and reconfigure them all myself - which would be a little annoying but still fun for a sunday evening.


  • #4
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    WhiteBoxLinux, lets you run all those fun toys management buy for Red Het As, but on an OS based on 'free' software that doesn't give 2k to some guy in Red Hat.


    Gobots go
    /


  • #5
    Captain Trips
    Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Captain Trips


    Originally posted by dahamsta
    Since the Red Hat EOL announcements, I'm convinced that Debian is the way forward.

    adam

    And what about Slackware? Debian can be bastardised just as easily e.g., Corel Linux.

    Slackware is *the * way of the future ;)


  • #6
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Because I back the horse that's most likely to win. That's not to say that Slack isn't a fine OS, but which do you hear more about in the mainstream news, Slack or Deb?

    adam


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  • #7
    Typedef
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    It's true. Debian will probably end up being widely deployed.

    For shops who need to run all of the fun toys marked 'Red Head only', WhiteBoxLinux (aka all of RH AS SRPMS used again, to create a distro called 'Whitebox') may well end up being reasonably widely deployed.


  • #8
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    You seem well impressed with WhiteBox Typie, it's all you talk about these days. Project seems a bit slapdash to me, information sparse. How do I update the machine for example? I don't see any mention of up2date/apt/yum on the page.

    adam


  • #9
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    UserLinux could turn out to be one of the major driving forces behind the adoption of Debian as the new de facto standard distro.


  • #10
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Originally posted by dahamsta
    You seem well impressed with WhiteBox Typie, it's all you talk about these days. Project seems a bit slapdash to me, information sparse. How do I update the machine for example? I don't see any mention of up2date/apt/yum on the page.

    adam

    Pants to that.

    I need something to plug in place of Red Hat for management ... who have these binary only toys that need to be run on Red Hat.

    FFS, if I can get a system that is guaranteed to be compatible with Red Hat AS (and thus run the binaries), for... umm... squat, that's sweet.

    Personally, if the shop was mine alone to run, it'd be Gentoo.

    Red Hat is so recognised throughout the business, it's a little like running what used to be called IBM compatibles.

    I've yet to do a noddy install on a test box, but, since WhiteBox uses the same SRPMS as the commercial version, it should be for all intents and purposes a turnkey solution.

    That's good for a Linux advocate like me, who fought to have Red Hat deployed in place of Windows.

    In an ideal world, everthing in use would be Linux *BSD based and there would be no closed source stuff to contend with... but, sometimes other people get to make tech decisions too...

    Also, one thing that irks me about Debian, is that it is pretty slow in the old upgrades department ...

    For this reason Gentoo is good, but, in terms of leaving a legacy for the next techie like me... it's quite likely that he/she will give the usual line "Install Red Hat"... (people parrot this alot), so, rather then try to convince my progeny techies that my way was better... just deploy a 100% compatibale (yet free) replacement for Red Hat.

    Everybody wins.[1]


    [1] Except Red Hat... but, it's a little cheeky to do what they've done ... I think.


  • #11
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Originally posted by dahamsta
    How do I update the machine for example? I don't see any mention of up2date/apt/yum on the page.

    adam

    aside from the promised comptability with RH/AS and all the closed source toys that only get 'certified' with it.

    Hosting and Blacknight (flamegrill works there I think.. ), have made noises about deploying it, which from where I sit, is already doubleplus points in it's favour.


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