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[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks for the input.

What is SGI - the one I know was Silcon Graphics - how does it tie into RH?

Andrew Mathews wrote:

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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.

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