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[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Myles Green wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 09:50, Net Llama! wrote:
> > Don't use RHAS, it blows chunks.  I've had to use it occasionally at work,
> > and its a huge pain, since its on such a slower release cycle than all of
> > Redhat's other distros, the kernel is still at 2.4.9, and other stuff is
> > ancient as well.
>
> Thanks for the heads-up... do you feel RH-8.0 Pro is ready for prime
> time yet or is the usual advice (stay away from RH's x.0 releases)
> applicable? I've been fairly impressed with SuSE 8.0 thus far (and
> haven't heard much that would prompt me to upgrade it to 8.1) but SuSE
> is not without it's weirdness either.
>
> decision time...

I've not tested 8.0 because i've heard a few too many nightmare stories.
In my opinion, 7.3 (XFS) is ideal for a server environment.  8.0 is prolly
ok for a desktop, but i wouldn't depend on it for stability.  That and the
fact that there's no simple way to get 8.0 installed on XFS right now.

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