<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">hey stempi!<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Howdy!<br> <br><snip><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">i've worked with centos and i do so steadily at my current job. while i<br>
do prefer it over RHEL, it'd be sad for the (sender to the) OP as he<br>
already is familiar with ubuntu. do you know if debian has the<br>
appropriate kernel OOB? that might be a good compromise for him- he<br>
wouldn't need to learn a new package management system, it uses the same<br>
sysinternals as ubuntu, and releases more often than CentOS (am i<br>
correct on that? it's been a while since i used debian).<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Ubuntu, if you want to use Xen, has a package you can install. The current 8.04 server kernel for Xen (2.6.24-21-xen) works fine as far as I can tell. I do not know about KVM. As for Debian, <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Xen">http://wiki.debian.org/Xen</a> seems to indicate no issues. Once again, I do not know about KVM.<br>
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although i agree with your last point the most- if he can migrate to a<br>
native DB system and native reports system, that would cut past all this<br>
headache in the first place and he'd be a happier person in the end as a<br>
result and hopefully bring us muffins as a thank-you gift. (i slipped a<br>
bit into fantasy there, but you get the picture). do it once, do it<br>
right. you know? (of course you do :D you're a fellow sysadmin).<br>
</blockquote><div><br>mmm....muffins....<br>That was the only Windows application that was mentioned, but there may be more. Leaving any mission-critical stuff on OS's that you no longer want to support is just bad news in the making.<br>
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