[lug] A Windows user's view of linux

[George Sexton]

Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
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> RedHat in particular.

I got tired of dealing with RedHat because they changed their package 
manager and system configuration on every release from 5-9. It sucked. 
You would learn how to do something and then it would change.

I've used SuSE for several years now, and been very happy. I like the 
two year support cycle and I actually like YaST.

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> http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=2663970#xx2663970xx
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> Obviously, what you're used to heavily influences what you view as
> normal, but I just thought it might be interesting to see how a
> part-time Linux admin views things.

Most of his rant is written out of frustration and ignorance. I've done 
Unix, Windows, and Novell for 20 years now, and hands down I prefer 
doing admin work on Linux.

Scripting in Linux is 10 times easier than it ever thought of being in 
Windows. I've read the articles on the power shell. It's ridiculously 
complicated.

OTOH, there are some points that he doesn't make. Most man pages suck. 
Tell me that a mortal could use the man page for "find" and understand 
how -exec works. It's just not possible.

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