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[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks for the comments.  I feel better now about it now.

Net Llama! wrote:

> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> Thanks for the input - comments inline
>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>>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
> 
> Just that i don't blindly use all the RPMs that Redhat provides.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> That is a plus with RH, in that just about everything is avaiable.  You
> name it, and odds are there's a Redhat compatible RPM out there for it.
> Lately (like in the past 4 months or so), i don't install RPMs at all, i
> always go with SRPMs, or source tarballs, and install them with
> checkinstall generated RPMs.
> 
> 

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