On 10/8/2011 4:08, Jim Henderson wrote:
> I have yet to see a text file change on a Linux system that can hork the
> system up as badly as Microsoft wants you to believe Windows can be
> messed up with a single registry change.

echo > /etc/fstab

> Because with Linux it's pretty rare to have to reboot to affect the
> change.  It's sometimes easier, but to this day, I continue to be amazed
> at how frequently a Windows system has to be restarted.  Twice during
> installation, and if you're applying system updates, sometimes multiple
> times to get everything current (certainly with XP, later versions are
> somewhat better).

Because nobody but Linux weenies care whether they have to reboot their 
system to upgrade their software?

> Trivial.  No scripting required.

These are relatively recent tools in Linux, you must admit. UNIX went 40 
years before getting such support, and only because it started to get 
targeted at less tech-savvy people.

>> If you wanted to do any of this with Linux, you would have a whole bunch
>> of scripting ahead of you. Under Windows, it just takes a few button
>> presses to set up. You just can't do it from the end-user versions of
>> Windows; it requires a server OS. (Three guesses why those cost so much
>> more.)
>
> Wrong, again on the Linux front.  I personally know people who administer
> *thousands* of Linux servers.  I worked for a company that has a product
> to apply updates on a schedule to remote Linux systems.

Is it included standard in Linux? ;-)

But yeah, this stuff happens fine in Linux. Probably easier in Linux than 
Windows, actually. I can't imagine the kind of operations Google does in 
their data centers working on something proprietary like Windows.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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