[TriLUG] Follow-up: why do you run multiple distros?
Magnus
magnus at trilug.org
Fri Apr 20 13:24:57 EDT 2007
Andrew Perrin wrote:
> All right, so I have a follow-up question. Why do y'all use different
> distributions for different machines? Doesn't it get confusing?
I run RHEL on my work machines because it supports my server hardware
far better than any other distro (except maybe SuSE, which is probably
on par).
I run Ubuntu because after hearing so much buzz about it, I checked it
out and found it to be very sensible and easy to customize to my liking.
Much easier than RHEL/CentOS (which is what I had been running
previously). Ubuntu does not yet have a lot of the enterprise
functionality that I would need to run it on my servers at work.
I run OpenBSD on some of my systems because it is lightweight, secure,
very easy to get up and running as a server platform. The firewall that
is built in has no peer. I don't run it as much as I used to (used to
run it all over the place) because it is a pain in the butt to patch and
is missing some key functionality for my purposes.
As a professional system administrator, it would be foolish of me to run
just one distribution everywhere. If I only do Red Hat, I'm going to
have a hard time interviewing at a Debian shop. But with Ubuntu
background, I can do just fine with Debian. Likewise with OpenBSD
background, I'm comfortable going into a *BSD shop.
I used to also have some Solaris kicking around but I have such disdain
for it as an OS (I hate Solaris more than Windows even) and don't think
it's necessary for my career anymore so I kicked it to the curb.
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