On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:51:46 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:58, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Any" Debian flavour... you mean you prefer Ubuntu over openSUSE for a >> server? Wow... can you expand that POV? >> >> > i didn't make the statement but i can understand the 'pov'. no, ubuntu > is *no* server (even their lts server - that's a joke). however, i > wouldn't think to use sles as a server either (i've not ever looked at > opensuse so i'm taking the closest comparison i've seen here). I can't speak for SLES, I've never used it (note that SLES is not the same as openSUSE) ;-) > firstly, on sles, can you tell me how many aliases there are? A few? O:-) Let's see: (openSUSE 10.3) stt008:/mnt/etc# cat /mnt/etc/aliases | wc -l 84 (debian lenny) stt008:/mnt/etc# cat /etc/aliases | wc -l 14 Oh, well... but how does the number of aliases make a system better or worse or...? I mean, do you think is a good parameter to measure something? > can you explain how the bloody hell they organize things in /usr and >/var (and /etc for that matter)? Hum... what's the problem here? I have no complains on this, maybe it's different from Debian but every distro plays with FHS at their desire... > what monkey did they use to patch their kernel? Hey, no monkeys in there! >:-) They have in their files some of the best kernel devels (I know, I know... we *do* also have :-P) > oh, and what is up with their package manager - yast (haven't seen that > in a while, but ..... yeah, it was bad a few years ago). YaST (well, not YasT but "zypper") has been greatly improved and is in a very good shape by now (fast and stable). > (as i've said / implied previously) there are only two reasons i'd use > anything other than debian, slackware, or freebsd (or possibly openbsd) > as a server - corporate history / bias or business support. i don't > think opensuse fits either of those requirements. sles and ubuntu rarely > fit those requirements. If I would needed business support or having a big company behind my linux servers I probably would have gone for RedHat... but openSUSE made a great job for what I needed. It was my fist linux distribution and still miss it a bit :'( (...) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.10.15.44...@gmail.com