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how kick out centos and get in freebsd?
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johannes falcone
Apr 3, 2013, 1:06:57 PM4/3/13
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anyone do this at work?
Γιώργος Κεραμίδας
Apr 5, 2013, 5:37:04 AM4/5/13
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 10:06:57 -0700 (PDT), johannes falcone <vispha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> anyone do this at work?
Why would you want to do that?
> anyone do this at work?
There may be important, yet "externally induced" reasons why CentOS is
used, e.g. it may be what the clients have asked for. There may be
hardware-related, experience-related, training-resource-related or other
sorts of reasons why CentOS makes a lot of business sense for the
specific company.
Or it may be that the first person who started installing software knew
about CentOS, liked it, and it 'stuck' with the company from that day.
Without any sort of context this question is impossible to answer.
For example, we cannot know any of the following, because you failed to
mention it:
- Which company is this?
- How large is the CentOS installation at the company?
- What does the company _really_ do with CentOS?
- Does it work fine for them? Or are there problems?
- If there are problems, what sort of problems are they having?
- How are they trying to solve them within the framework of CentOS?
- How is that failing?
- What do they _get_ out of CentOS, despite any failures?
- Does FreeBSD support what they are doing? Both hardware- and
software-wise?
- Who will support FreeBSD if it has problems later on?
- How much will that cost in comparison with the current setup?
- Is the transition from CentOS to FreeBSD possible?
- How do you plan to do the transition?
- Who will take over the transition if a bus hits you?
- What constitutes a successful migration?
- How would you roll back if the migration to BSD fails?
These are *important* details. Without any of them, it's really quite
_impossible_ to answer your question, because any one of the above, and
of course any number of other things that I have missed, can be a very
serious blocking factor.
jonny
Apr 22, 2013, 12:24:26 AM4/22/13
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That is a serious reply. lol
Giorgos Keramidas
Apr 24, 2013, 6:33:04 AM4/24/13
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Well, that's precisely what it was meant to be :-)
I've worked in places where CentOS was the "company standard" in the
past, and I work in a company that uses CentOS today too. I still
prefer FreeBSD over _any_ flavor of Linux, but my experience has shown
that to make the switch from distribution $foo to a completely new
system, like FreeBSD, should always be done after a careful evaluation
of the advantages vs. disadvantages of it all.
Making the switch is always more productive and standa a chance of being
a successful project when you have clearly defined exactly what you
expect to gain from it. When the gains are far greater in importance,
or outnumber the advantages of leaving things as they are by a huge
margin, then it definitely makes sense.
In all other cases, the old UNIX adage "If it works, don't break it" is
the logical thing to stand behind.
Cheers,
Giorgos
I've worked in places where CentOS was the "company standard" in the
past, and I work in a company that uses CentOS today too. I still
prefer FreeBSD over _any_ flavor of Linux, but my experience has shown
that to make the switch from distribution $foo to a completely new
system, like FreeBSD, should always be done after a careful evaluation
of the advantages vs. disadvantages of it all.
Making the switch is always more productive and standa a chance of being
a successful project when you have clearly defined exactly what you
expect to gain from it. When the gains are far greater in importance,
or outnumber the advantages of leaving things as they are by a huge
margin, then it definitely makes sense.
In all other cases, the old UNIX adage "If it works, don't break it" is
the logical thing to stand behind.
Cheers,
Giorgos
johannes falcone
May 6, 2013, 3:18:44 PM5/6/13
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