CentOS - Nov 2006 - Any long-time CentOS users on list using Ubuntu as well?

I've gotten roped into helping a local charity with some 
computing/infrastructure snafus.  It seems their last good Samaritan 
installed Ubuntu all over the place and is "unavailable" now to clean
up
the mess.  CentOS has made me somewhat lazy because everything just 
works out of the box for the most part and you've got the occasional 
"yum update".  :)  These are all desktop systems, if that makes any 
difference.  With any luck, I'll be able to pave over the installs with 
CentOS 4.4 and call it a day.  :D

Any suggestions on known piles of doodie to step over would be very much 
appreciated.   <g>

Best regards,

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:22 -0500, chrism at imntv.com
wrote:
> I've gotten roped into helping a local charity with some 
> computing/infrastructure snafus.  It seems their last good Samaritan 
> installed Ubuntu all over the place and is "unavailable" now to
clean up
> the mess.  CentOS has made me somewhat lazy because everything just 
> works out of the box for the most part and you've got the occasional 
> "yum update".  :)  These are all desktop systems, if that makes
any
> difference.  With any luck, I'll be able to pave over the installs with
> CentOS 4.4 and call it a day.  :D
I have been using RH, and now Centos for over 10 years.
I just put Kubuntu on my desktop.  I am impressed so far.
It is a Debian derivitive...what is not working?

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:22:47 -0500
"chrism at imntv.com" <chrism at imntv.com> wrote:
> I've gotten roped into helping a local charity with some 
> computing/infrastructure snafus.  It seems their last good
> Samaritan installed Ubuntu all over the place and is
"unavailable"
> now to clean up the mess.  CentOS has made me somewhat lazy because
> everything just works out of the box for the most part and you've
> got the occasional "yum update".  :)  These are all desktop
> systems, if that makes any difference.  With any luck, I'll be able
> to pave over the installs with CentOS 4.4 and call it a day.  :D
It's excellent, especially as a desktop. For making that is well
configured for users including many add-ons go to:

www.ubuntuguide.org

Everything you need to configure is there.

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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, chrism at imntv.com wrote:
> I've gotten roped into helping a local charity with some 
> computing/infrastructure snafus.  It seems their last good Samaritan 
> installed Ubuntu all over the place and is "unavailable" now to
clean up the
> mess.  CentOS has made me somewhat lazy because everything just works out
of
> the box for the most part and you've got the occasional "yum
update".  :)
We maintain a Debian box for internal testing of some 
code; Assuming the /etc/apt/sources.list is intact, as root:

apt-get update
apt-get update

should do most things; if you get messages about packages 
being held back from upgrades, contact me off list (as these 
are after all Debian type issues), but basically,

dpkg --remove
 	- and -
dpkg --configure -a

are your friends.

-- Russ Herrold

> Any suggestions on known piles of doodie to step over would be very much 
> appreciated.   <g>
> 
> Best regards,
The biggest thing I have noticed is Ubuntu leaves out some items that 
CentOS puts in the default install.

For example:

  linux kernel headers
  sshd
  default firewall



  Dan Stoner
  Network Administrator
  Florida Museum of Natural History
  University of Florida