Linux Administration Cookbook

Anecdote - try, try, and try again

You will find that in your career the concept of holy wars is dominant, and every new generation of technology has its apologists and opponents. This is not least seen in the distribution-wars, which has tribal factions staunchly defending their OS of choice. If you ever find yourself in the position of choosing which distribution to install for a company or project, take into consideration everything you've read here, and do your own reading around before blindly accepting one person's opinion as truth.

That's not to say you should become tribal yourself – I've installed all of the preceding distributions at one time or another, the first of which was Ubuntu.

Back in 2005, I learned about this thing called ...