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I should add, that I use XFS on every new box I build.  Its a joy to not 
have to worry about the filesystem anymore.  I've got 1 box with ext3, 
and its a constant headache.

Andrew Mathews wrote:
> "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.
>>
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 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.


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