On 04/26/2015 03:30 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
I'm a longtime user of Red Hat-style distributions (RHL, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, etc.). My home router/firewall is a 32-bit VIA C7 system that is currently running CentOS 6. I really want to move this to a more modern stable distribution, but Red Hat has abandoned 32-bit platforms with RHEL 7. Thus, I'm considering moving this system to Debian Jessie. Does anyone know of any good resources (books, web sites, etc.) to help an experienced "Red Hat guy" make the transition? I'm really looking for something that highlights the differences from a sysadmin's point of view. Unfortunately, I don't think I have the patience for any sort of "intro to Linux". ;-)
You shouldn't find a huge difference at all. You can use apt-get sorta like you used yum. I think, if you are running headless, that would need to familiarize yourself with it. I think you will come to appreciate apt-get after using yum for years, as I did in 2006. Other than that, I cannot think of a major difference, other than if you install Jessie, you will get systemd. Wheezy doesn't have it, unless you install it. Welcome, from an RPM expat. :) Ric
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