And I’m saying goodbye, not farewell!
By the way, I moved from Debian “Squeeze” ( 6.0 testing ) to CentOS 5.5 on Tomcat and, even with an older 2.6.18 kernel (compared to the newer 2.6.32 debian’s one) everything worked flawlessly: video, network card, audio.
I must admit that Tomcat is a little old, but the battery is still alive and it’s powerful enough for many of my daily task, like writing small programs, reading e-mails, surfing the web, doing some electronic projects, using office apps etc.
It is not that I don’t like Debian anymore. I was using a testing distribution and I had only minor issues, so I was quite happy with it.
Then Hyper-V came: a powerful virtualization service for Windows Server 2008 that is also able to run Linux as a guest OS. Great, but it only works with SLES or RHEL. You can obtain SLES for free but you will have only two month of updates without purchasing a subscripition with Novell. On the other hand, you can’t have RHEL for free, but you can have CentOS and upgrades for free, so I went for CentOS. I currently have a VM running CentOS with the Linux integrations services installed that works well.
I did a backup of all the data on Tomcat and installed CentOS on it. It works perfectly beside Windows XP on the another partition.
Recently, I have also installed CentOS on Nighthawk. I use it remotely via SSH or VNC.
I’m slowly getting accustomished to yum, even if sometimes I still type apt-get instead of yum… oh well.
However, my “goodbye” to Debian isn’t really true, because as of writing this post, this page is being served by apache running on a Debian 4.0 virtual machine according to the informations tophost gives me on the site’s control panel…
Bye