Playing with Debian
At work, we are transitioning all of our servers from “Red Hat”:http://www.redhat.com (old versions like 7.2 and 8.0) to “Debian”:http://www.debian.org/. Part of my job has been to move all of the services from the old Red Hat server to the new Debian server. This has entailed setting up things like NIS and our Jabber server.
On Red Hat, this would involve trying to find the right packages, trying to install them, searching for dependencies, trying to install them again, and so on. On Debian, it is dead simple. For NIS, it is just apt-get install nis and for Jabber, apt-get install jabber. Would could be simpler then that.
In addition, for both apps, I have been able to find a nice little “tutorial page”:http://www.debian-administration.org/ on the Debian website that shows how to fully setup “each”:http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/36 “one”:http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/42. Very cool.
