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[Andrew Mathews]

"Net Llama!" wrote:
> 
> I wouldn't say that Redhat doesn't have a clue.  They just like to make
> standards, rather than follow them.
> 
> I wouldn't touch Debian with a 10ft stick.  Way too many religious zealots.
> 
> Mandrake makes a nice desktop distro, or so i've heard, but its a wee
> bit too unstable for my taste.  I mean, devfs as the standard???  What
> were they thinking?
> 
> SuSE has been gathering steam as a very dependable distro, although i've
> never used it.
> 
> So, that brings me back to Redhat, which is what i've settled on.
> RedHat seems to be leaning more towards stability these days.  I think
> they might have realized that if they want to hold onto their market
> share, they need to meet the needs of the enterprise, not the needs to
> the l33t script kiddies.  I've got 6 desktop boxes (counting the 2
> laptops), and Redhat occupies 4 of them.  Overall i tend to break away
> from the redhat-isms and install things the way i like them.
> 
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I'd have to agree with you. I originally started with RH around 5.2 and
immediately took a dislike, switching to Caldera. I've tried SuSE,
Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, and even <cough> Corel<cough> which I
immediately confused with an AOL disc, immediately making an excellent
drink holder. I run Caldera on this laptop, and another, as well as one
gateway/firewall and another mail server. However I've converted several
boxen to the SGI/RH 7.2 distro which I've had absolutely zero problems
with. Not one single problem! So in time, all mine will eventually be
all XFS/SGI/RH based. Hell, even SGI's vanilla 2.4.18 kernel runs like a
dream. I haven't been this impressed with a distro since eDesktop 2.4!
As a matter of fact, I'm having an intellectual *debate* (disagreement)
over using it vs. SuSE 8.0 for a new hot rod web server I'm building for
the State. I respect his opinion highly, but I really don't have a good
feel personally for SuSE just yet. I may test it on a spare laptop hard
drive over the weekend and see how different, or the same it really is.
It has to have XFS or I won't load it though. Any comments or opinions
about these are appreciated.
-- 
Andrew Mathews
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