On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:06:29PM -0500, Joe McDonagh wrote: > Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can make > smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. > Actually, bottom posting is common in e-mail etiquette. A: Because it's easier to read Q: Why should I bottom post? http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html (I know this link refers to Usenet groups, but the same etiquette applies to mailing lists) That aside, I don't think top posting is a good representation of someone as stupid. Just uninformed. >>> 1. Preseed vs. kickstart >>> >>> If you're only running at home or only a few machines at work, you're >>> not going to run into this. Once you're done a RH install a .ks file is >>> dropped under /root. You can now use this file to kickstart identical >>> machines in PXE in a couple of minutes. There is no such automatic >>> generation in Debian. >>> >> >> [...] >> I am not sure if Debian has anything like Kickstart, but to be fair I can't think of one time I would have needed it. Debootstrap/dd works fine whenever I needed to quickly setup a system. Kickstart would just be a superfluous app I'd never use. >>> 2. The disarray of configuration files vs centralized system config dir >>> >>> In RH you have /etc/sysconfig. Almost every single system configuration >>> file is under here. In Debian, anything goes. >>> >> >> /etc/default... But traditionally, yeah, /etc/ is where config files go. >> > ooohhh really? Keen observation Steve! Thanks for that crumb kind sir. > Got any other gems? Actually, I find Debian to be pretty concise in where it stores configuration files; I've never had trouble finding one. If it's not in /etc it's in /etc/default -- Debian actually sticks religiously to the FHS, which makes things fairly easy to locate. > You can have a sane conversation about this vs that without talking to > someone like they are mildly retarded. > That'll be hard to have if you're feeding the fire too. -- http://pobega.wordpress.com http://identica/pobega
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