After many years in the BSD land, late December 2011 I’ve started using the 2011 release of Debian Linux on Linode512 upgraded to Linode768 (plan to “upgrade” back to 512 after a while on 768).

My list of bugs/annoyances is as follows (I might update this entry later on, too):

* installing ntpd package corrects your date without any trace whatsoever what the correction was; I guesstimate that it’s a package bug, where they run ntpdate or something, but maybe ntpd itself is to blame

* logs are not rotated at midnight. stupid linux runs logrotate as part of the /etc/cron.daily/ at 6:25 on my box (seriously, how entirely dumb is that?) The best fix would probably be `echo “0 0 * * * root /etc/cron.daily/logrotate” »/etc/cron.d/logrotate`, but I’m entirely amazed that anyone finds it acceptable to do daily/weekly/monthly rotation of logs at random times of the day, other than 00:00:00 (renaming a few files doesn’t take that many resources; if you really care about overconsumption at 00:00:00, why not ensure that logs are never compressed during the 00:00:00 run?)

* there is no `jot`. seriously, no jot? `apt-get install athena-jot`

* iptables has no way of storing any rules permanently. Have to install `iptables-persistent` with apt. However, iptables-persistent only works with IPv4, for IPv6 you have to do some hacking. The whole thing where IPv6 is controlled by `ip6tables`, and never by `iptables`, arguably adds to show just how little Linux cares about IPv6 adoption.