Farid Behnia wrote:
It's certainly a good point but they have implied they
are willing to do the whole migration as a one-time
Hi there,
This is both good and bad. Let me explain:
From what you have said, I gather the management is not sure of all the
differences; all they are interested in is to see the system working AND
to see you happy. In addition, it sounds like the company is more than a
garage-based business, but small enough to *trust* one person to play
around with their production system.
Having worked on both sides of the fence, I gather, you have made a very
good impression in the company, you have their confidence, and they
think you are the best thing since sliced bread (good for you). I am
really happy for you.
But (and there is always a but), based on a number of years of
management experience, I can tell you this: don't screw this up! Because
of the size of the company, it is very hard to hide your mistakes, and
it is even harder to re-gain the management's confidence. In other
words, what's on line is *your ass*!
I am sure you know what you are doing, and the fact that you have asked
the question here shows that you are not khaki. I hope everything works
out great for you.
I have used both redhat and debian in production environments, and I've
been very happy with both. Because of the points raised in another post,
I don't deploy redhats any more. But I still do not feel quite at home
with debian as I do with Fedora (which has more to do with my lack of
recent hands-on experience than any shortcoming on the part of debian).
With regards to binary device drivers, most binary drivers these days
are statically compiled/linked. This is to make sure that they don't
stop working if a user upgrades a seemingly unrelated library. This, of
course, has the advantage of cross-compatibility. Just copy the driver
from one system to another, and it should just work (albeit some
twicking of config files, etc.).
Cheers and good luck,
Hossein
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