Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2008-12-03, 00:41 GMT, Christopher Chan wrote: >> This is not a matter of preferring Ubuntu. It is one of NO >> CHOICE. I know next to nothing about Debian/Ubuntu >> configuration files nor am I familiar with dpkg or apt as I am >> with rpm and yum. You think I want to move over for fun? > > I am certainly missing something here -- you are familiar with > the Red Hat world and thus when you need desktops you choose > Ubuntu? Have you heard about Fedora? Fedora 10 was released just > now, and I think (given Qumranet is now part of Red Hat) it > should have pretty good support for kvm. > > What do I miss? Maybe the fact that I and many here use Centos because we do not want to have to upgrade every six months? Hardy is LTS. I won't be rolling out Intrepid. I am not uber mad about keeping to what is familiar if all I have to do is man dpkg/apt-get a few more times or familiarize myself with a weirdo network configuration file. What would you pick? Learn a few new commands/configuration files or have to prep up a new desktop rollout every six months? I have already gone with OpenSolaris Indiana for file servers using samba, zfs + zfs|nfs4 acls/snapshots and the initial pain of getting used to a new environment is more or less over and this was about six months ago. But then, this is only because Indiana upgrades are pretty painless and I do not need anything special besides what is provided in the stock repo. I believe in using the right tool for the job. So I might pick OpenBSD for a firewall over Linux depending on what needs to be on firewall/nat gateway. RHEL/Fedora is not the ultimate answer for everything although we'd like it to be...but I guess complaining here won't do any good. :-P