On Saturday 14 December 2002 3:21 pm, Ian C. Sison wrote: > > such. Bottomline is, different distros has different ways of > > accomplishing tasks, and it is now up to the user to which approach > > he/she prefers and is comfortable with. > > Nope. To say something like that is to say that 'Hey, its a free world, > do anything you want, do anything you are comfortable with'. And that's > not what i want to put across. If we had it that way then people will
Oh, I just dragged myself deep into this thread of advocacy :). When I said 'comfortable', I meant adaptable (c/o jhazer) and usable (with ease) for the part of the administrator (the admin's perspective). > still be using TELNET today and simply justifying it as 'It works for me, > so i don't even care about using and installing SSH'. I can't seem to find the connection between telnet, ssh, and comfortability. Being comfortable doesn't mean being insecure, primitive, useless, nor dumb. > My point is that there are general 'best practices' which should be > followed, to promote maintainable, secure and well administered Linux > servers. These 'best practices' should be the first things newbies or > those interested in Linux should learn to adopt, and learn to promote. > And one of these practices i would like to promote is the use of package > management software. Agreed. But how do you define 'best practices'? I guess the term 'best practices' is not quite applicable to package management software but rather to security. IMHO, the best way (best practice) to install software is to get the source tarball, read README, INSTALL, etc., then compile/install. This way, you get utmost flexibility and configurability, and the latest release. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
