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From: Robert Heller on 28 Mar 2010 15:15 At Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:31:56 -0400 Moshe <goldee_loxnbagels(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Terry is crazy if he thinks that he can change from say OpenSuse > to Debian and just copy his /home over and everything will work as > before. > A year or so ago, I migrated a system from Ubuntu to CentOS 5.4. /home was on a separate file system. I just created a fresh set of system file systems (/, /usr, and /var) and installed CentOS. The users saw virtually no change (not that they had much beyond the base default GNome setup). The changeover was esentually painless and mostly transparent. -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
From: TomB on 28 Mar 2010 16:05 ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.] On 2010-03-27, the following emerged from the brain of Ignoramus11443: > On 2010-03-27, Moshe <goldee_loxnbagels(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:41:18 -0500, Terry Porter wrote: >> >> >>> >>> I totally agree after installing Arch on my EeePC900. I'm very impressed >>> with so many aspects of Arch, from the philosophy to the package >>> management. >>> >>> Next Arch install this quadcore workstation, currently running Mint8. >> >> Linux. >> So many distributions. >> So little time. >> >> Tell me, do you Linux freaks actually use your Linux systems for >> anything productive? > > I am one of those who use linux for productive things. Productive can be many things. Even tinkering can be productive, as it usually means that you're learning something. -- BOFH excuse #357: I'd love to help you -- it's just that the Boss won't let me near the computer.
From: RonB on 28 Mar 2010 18:33 On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:15:25 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:31:56 -0400 Moshe <goldee_loxnbagels(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Terry is crazy if he thinks that he can change from say OpenSuse to >> Debian and just copy his /home over and everything will work as before. >> >> > A year or so ago, I migrated a system from Ubuntu to CentOS 5.4. /home > was on a separate file system. I just created a fresh set of system > file systems (/, /usr, and /var) and installed CentOS. The users saw > virtually no change (not that they had much beyond the base default > GNome setup). The changeover was esentually painless and mostly > transparent. Oh, but "Moshe" the "expert" says you can't do that. So you must be mistaken. :) -- RonB Registered Linux User #498581 CentOS 5.4 or Vector Linux Deluxe 6.0
From: Terry Porter on 28 Mar 2010 18:35 On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:40:48 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote: > troll (flatfish stealing a holocaust victims name) wrote: <snip> >> >> Doubtful. > > Translation: You don't know. That one sentence summarises trolls pretty well. They don't know, because they're just trolls. -- This machine running Gnu/Linux Mint 8 and posting via Pan. Get your Free copy NOW! http://linuxmint.com/
From: Terry Porter on 28 Mar 2010 18:39
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:15:25 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:31:56 -0400 Moshe <goldee_loxnbagels(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Terry is crazy if he thinks that he can change from say OpenSuse to >> Debian and just copy his /home over and everything will work as before. >> >> > A year or so ago, I migrated a system from Ubuntu to CentOS 5.4. /home > was on a separate file system. I just created a fresh set of system > file systems (/, /usr, and /var) and installed CentOS. The users saw > virtually no change (not that they had much beyond the base default > GNome setup). The changeover was essentially painless and mostly > transparent. Of course! I've done this dozens of times since 1997, and always painlessly. The troll "Moshe" (flatfish stealing a holocaust victims name) only proves (once again) that it knows very little about Linux, which is perfectly understandable because it is just a time wasting troll. -- This machine running Gnu/Linux Mint 8 and posting via Pan. Get your Free copy NOW! http://linuxmint.com/ |