Brother tilly,

Do you think or find Ubuntu's non standard root likely at all to affect new users learning and administrating *nix?

I have read that some people advise staying away from RHEL and Fedora because too many GUI helps and tools keep (or slows) one from the learning one get from hands on typing and execution of commands to do what one wants at the command line.

And just curious, how are the strengths and weaknesses of Ubuntu compared to FreeBSD as a learning, development and production platform? Have you used FreeBSD 6.x very much? How long have you been using Ubuntu? What did you switch from and why (if I may ask -- I think a lot of your judgement, and value your opinions and choices, thus ask).

BTW, I've very much appreciated reading many of your post here. Thank you very much for them (and for the link in your post, great read). I'm not trying to start an OS flamefest but only have time to learn one *nix really, really well with all the other things I have to learn and do. So I want to pick as wisely as I can. After all, I'll be maintaining the servers myself, so figure I should learn and develop on the same OS I deploy upon and administer.

Thank you for your help.

In reply to Re^2: Solaris 10 for Perl development? Problems? Upside? Your thoughts, please! by Anonymous Monk
in thread Solaris 10 for Perl development? Problems? Upside? Your thoughts, please! by Anonymous Monk

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