{"id":1062,"date":"2008-09-23T06:51:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2008-09-23T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T11:51:16","slug":"switcher-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/23\/switcher-guides","title":{"rendered":"Switcher Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I had to futz with an Ubuntu server that was to run mail, web, and database services. <\/p>\n<p>You slowly learn that Ubuntu as a desktop is easy to use, but as a server, its &#8220;different&#8221;, if you come from a Red Hat based background (especially if you&#8217;ve been using Red Hat-based distributions for the last thirteen years or so). <\/p>\n<p>From example, while <tt>service httpd start<\/tt> works (well, the equivalent is <tt>service apache start<\/tt>), enabling things on boot using <tt>chkconfig<\/tt> (I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/embracing-chkconfig-to-auto-start-services-like-mysql-on-rhelcentosfedoraetc\">wrote about it<\/a> a while back) is replaced with <tt>update-rc.d<\/tt>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, if you&#8217;re an rpm aficionado, dpkg is a little different. I applaud the Ubuntu folk for creating an article such as <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/SwitchingToUbuntu\/FromLinux\/%20RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAndFedora\">Switching to Ubuntu from Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora<\/a>. Impressive. Switcher guides :)<\/p>\n<p>OpenSolaris needs switcher guides. svcadm\/smf is different for someone who&#8217;s coming from Linux-land. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I had to futz with an Ubuntu server that was to run mail, web, and database services. You slowly learn that Ubuntu as a desktop is easy to use, but as a server, its &#8220;different&#8221;, if you come from a Red Hat based background (especially if you&#8217;ve been using Red Hat-based distributions for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-h8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}