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[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks for the input - comments inline.

Net Llama! wrote:

> I wouldn't say that Redhat doesn't have a clue.  They just like to make
> standards, rather than follow them.

Hmm, not good if they break too many of them.  
 
> 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.

When you say break away from the redhat-isms what does that entail?  This 
worries me in that I can end up with a "non-standard" system and have 
trouble later.  Although I have experience with many OSs - including 
various unixes - that's been a long time ago and I'm trying to get back 
into it (I'm VMS, Windows world now) and although I will eventually get 
into the nittty-gritty details I need a system I can get up and running and 
then play with later.  I'll be building a workstation and a server shortly 
so this is a good time to see if I need to stay with Caldera.

One concern expressed about Caldera was that they left things out - what 
about RH - is everything there.  And what is everything?  So far I haven't 
missed much on Caldera but then I haven't done much except build some apps. 
 I know Caldera has been slow on updates but that hasn't been a problem to 
me.



 
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> What do you recommend then for a distro?  I see - and this is based only
>> on my time in the newsgroups and mailing lists:
>> 
>> RH - the MS an AOL of the Linux world: breaks rules, doesn't maintain
>> standards,bleeding edge, doesn't have much of a clue.  They made it
>> popular but lost it
>> 
>> SUSE - ?
>> 
>> Mandrake - ?
>> 
>> Debian - ?
>> 
>> Who else is there - Maybe use gentoo to set it up and then make your own
>> changes and updates (I do that with Caldera anyway in that I upgrade the
>> kernels and some of the apps).
>> 
>> What distros are worth installing in that they include what they are
>> supposed to and follow the standards?
>> 
>> I would like to know as I'm building a Linux workstation and also a file
>> server.  I'd planned to use Caldera Server 3.1.1 and WS 3.1.1.
> 

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