Congrats

@johnhooks said:

So you linked this topic in another thread, and I just read through this. Did anyone else use HDM on DOS?

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In middle and high school we had something like that. It was a hand coded console graphics and batch programs that would run what you chose. You're taking me back. It might have originally been made on a program like that, but the students quickly learned how to customize it.

@Reid-Cooper said:

That's interesting. Quotes without the escapes should make that unnecessary. Interesting way to fix it, though.

Yeah, the quotes was still showing it as a syntax error.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

Ok, I'd think it'd be a simple thing to add the CentOS 6 repos, run a yum update, and allow the packages to update. What makes it not that simple?

That it does nothing. A CentOS 5 system, pointed to CentOS 6 repos will simply see the as not applying. You can't change your OS version using YUM.

Oh, I was not aware of that.

Maybe you are thinking of Minor release updates, not major release.

Yeah, must be.

I'll definitely be upgrading to this new version and checking it out before I try a different flavour of Linux on it though

I've done this in the past, though without looking it up I couldn't tell you how. 🙂

@tonyshowoff said:

That's true too, but my own point on that subject was that the sysadmins needed to at least know how to actually do it. There's nothing that beats a tool which will automatically get all the dependencies and everything.

Agree on the knowledge of how, what, why, etc.

Well, I'm glad the wallpaper was a priority... </sarcasm>

Systemd replaces Upstart The Linux kernel has been upgraded Unity and Compiz get minor upgrades Locally Integrated Menus are now default A new wallpaper has been implemented All the major apps have been upgraded

@art_of_shred said:

It really does work most of the time. It's difficult to make a plug and play, one size fits all product for business computing. Every environment is unique, and every admin has their own methodology to configuring their architecture (often, that is driven by general cluelessness and/or ignorance). I think that, given the diversity of what you have to be able to adapt to, the roughly 95% success rate that I have seen with incremental forever is pretty decent. The thing that makes it somewhat aggravating is that it is a proprietary mechanism that is held rather tightly. Even inside of Unitrends, there doesn't seem to be a lot of general knowledge floating around about how to fix it when it doesn't work. The algorithms that control it are basically "unknown". It's a magical thing, powered by pixie dust, and you don't mess with it; it just kinda does its thing. If you have a Unitrends support contract, and it's giving you trouble, they can help diagnose it and get it fixed. For the rest of us...

Only complaint would be that for a backup system, 95% success rate is way, way too low for it to be a recommendation. It should be a "this is really fragile but if you want to give it a shot and monitor it closely, here it is" kind of thing at that point. It's a neat idea but if it doesn't match the reliability of traditional setups, I'd think recommendations should fall to the reliable. No aspect of IT has a stronger leaning towards consistent, conservative and reliable as backups.

I love Linux but, not as a desktop. It's graphic system well sucks.
Windows 7 was pretty good aside from being resource intensive (do to aero graphic mainly).
Windows 8/8.1 start menu sucked on desktops but there was a lot of good changes especially with windows updates handling.
I'm liking windows 10 so far.

@scottalanmiller said:

Often with those choices you get PostgreSQL too, which would be my preference nine times out of ten.

You can go straight to hell. That's right, an old rivalry that I can no longer justify.

Haha, alright so I set up the steps today to change the port, create new user, elevate all that (as I'm sure the people who are reading this saw)

Now my error is relating to the changes I made.
I assume the two things can work successfully together?

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Im my constant posts on trying to get this going is annoying anyone just lemme know and I'll stop attempting this/asking a million questions haha

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

Ubuntu switched to Unity, which is as bad as it gets. GNOME was WAY better!

No disagreement there. But that Unity is the worst and Gnome is better doesn't say much for Gnome. I still put it towards the bottom of any list of desktops. Especially with KDE taking back the lead in quality for the big, heavy desktops from it.

Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, LXDE and several others come way before Gnome for me.

Thankfully desktop environments are all a matter of preference. 😛

Hmm. I Don't know if you could join both a Linux file server to both a windows domain and Openldap. But I bet there is a way.